USS Lexington

Did You Know that Maverick’s Top Gun F-14 Tomcat Currently Features VF-84 Jolly Rogers Paint Scheme And Is On Display Aboard USS Lexington?

Did You Know that Maverick’s Top Gun F-14 Tomcat Currently Features VF-84 Jolly Rogers Paint Scheme And Is On Display Aboard USS Lexington?

The interesting video in this post features F-14 Tomcat (S/N 160694), one of a valiant few that was used in… Read More

4 years ago

The Story of Butch O’Hare, the F4F Wildcat Pilot that shot down 5 Japanese Bombers Expending only 60 Rounds of 0.50-caliber ammunition

The captain of the Lexington, Frederick Sherman, recommended O'Hare for the Congressional Medal of Honor but O'Hare refused, insisting to… Read More

5 years ago

The USS Lexington Museum has unveiled a very special painted F9F-8 Cougar

The F9F-8 paint job is not permanent thanks to the dishwashing liquid applied to latex paint On Oct. 17, 2016… Read More

7 years ago