Being a Navy Vet as well as a history buff, I’m into all things military, especially all things Navy. In our travels, we’ve toured 2 battleships and an aircraft carrier. (Alabama, Texas, and Lexington). The big ships are fun, but I prefer the “small fry”, as that’s where I served. As far as I know,…
On Thursday the seventeenth, we drove into Corpus Christi to tour the aircraft carrier USS Lexington, CV-16. Lex is moored in Corpus Christi Bay, across the shipping channel from downtown, in the area known as North Beach. Lexington was commissioned in 1943, and served in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. She was damaged…