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File:USS Lexington (CVA-16) underway at sea on 16 August 1958.jpg
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English: The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CVA-16) underway in the Western Pacific, with Carrier Air Group 21 (CVG-21), on 16 August 1958. Just eight days later, on 24 August, Communist Chinese artillery began shelling the Nationalist Chinese islands of Quemoy and Matsu, prompting the Blue Ghost´s (as Lexington was called) deployment to the Taiwan Straits at various times during the next four months, along with other units of the U.S. Seventh Fleet. |
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| Source | Official U.S. Navy Photograph CVA-16-2720-(L)-8-58 available on Navsource.org |
| Author | U.S. Navy |
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