Yet, the truth is that the Tomcat did indeed operate from at least the USS Coral Sea during the twilight of the ship's life, as evidenced in the videos below: The big swing-wing Tomcats would fly ...

a year after the wreckage of the USS Lexington (CV-2) was discovered in the Pacific. Cmdr. Jennifer Bowden, Ronald Reagan’s chaplain, said the Battle of the Coral Sea Commemorative Association ...

Just a year later, a new Essex-class carrier was christened USS Lexington (CV-16), and would remain in ... aware of the other’s presence in the Coral Sea, northeast of Australia, but did not ...