She was the nation's third-ever aircraft carrier and one of the largest. She was the sister of the USS Lexington (CV-2), and ...

In the early morning hours of Sunday, December 7, 1941, a strike force of 353 aircraft from the Land of the Rising Sun poked the sleeping bear that was the United States by launching a sneak ...

Following its commission in 1943, the USS Lexington was a combat aircraft carrier with the 5th Fleet at Pearl Harbor during World War II. Now, the retired ship rests in Corpus Christi Bay and ...