Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Other Nautical News:
Lex Wreck Located

From Vulcan Inc. (Paul Allen, founder of Vulcan, is obviously the most successful member of the Lakeside School's class of 1971; I'd have to guess this reporter is the greatest [if not the only, barring one of the class having fatally overdosed, died drunk driving, yada] actual failure thereof.)From Stars & Stripes.Previously in this space, text, illustrations & filmed accounts of Lexington's demise.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

USS Lexington was not the first aircraft carrier sunk. Both the British aircraft carriers HMS Courageous and HMS Glorious were sunk by the Germans in 1939 and 1940. The Lexington was the first US carrier sunk.