World War II Service The USS Lexington served as the flagship of Task Force 58, and was present at every major engagement from Tarawa to Tokyo. As reported by Maya Carlin for The National Interest ...

USS Lexington (CV-16). It is a mortal sin that a great piece of American history, like the USS Texas, would struggle to find a home. But this is the case. The Corpus Christi option, frankly ...

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 ...

Ted Cruz. Batterson died on Aug. 11, 2023, at the age of 102. He had been a constant volunteer at the USS Lexington Museum on the Bay since the ship’s inception as a museum in 1992.

Operations Specialist 3rd Class Aiden Blanchette, from Leesville, South Carolina, loads an M240B machine gun with ammunition during a live-fire exercise aboard the ...