USS Lexington (CV-2)

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USS Lexington (CV-2) was the first non-experimental aircraft carrier in the United States Navy, lead ship of the Lexington-class. The class were built on hulls originally intended for battlecruisers.

She was commissioned in 1927, and sunk in combat at the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942.

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