SS34005 USS LEXINGTON SQUADRON AT SEA
By David Doyle

The USS Lexington - affectionately referred to as 'Lady Lex' -
was the United States Navy's second aircraft carrier. Laid down
as the lead ship of the Lexington-class battle cruisers, which
were to have been the world’s most powerful warships, the
Washington Naval Treaty forbade her completion as such, but
permitted her to be finished as an aircraft carrier. Commissioned

14 December 1927, Lexington, with her fabric-covered biplanes
deployed to the Pacific. Through the following years both the
ship and her aircraft underwent numerous upgrades. These changes,

along with her construction, the daily routine of the crew are
fully chronicled. The book also describes the transition of both
men and machine as the nation plunged into the war, which ended
for the Lexington on 8 May 1942, when she sank in the Coral Sea.
No other single volume encompasses all the historic images that
pack this latest volume. Illustrated with 235 photos, 14 color
renderings and detailed line drawings; 104 pages.
ISBN 978-0-89747-715-4 Soft Cover