CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Exactly 80 years ago, a Type 91 Japanese Navy torpedo dropped from a bomber exploding the side of the USS Lexington. That attack ripped and flooded several parts of the ship ...
Queen of the flattops -- Fleet problems and other adventures: the 1930s -- Narrow escape at Pearl Harbor -- Wake Island abandoned -- The sleeping giant awakes -- Blind man's bluff -- The Battle of the ...
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Carson Manning began volunteering at the USS Lexington Museum in 2021. Last year, he discovered a lack of any memorial recognizing the victims of a torpedo attack in 1943. On ...