The Hook - History of USS Lexington - Summer 1992

VOLUME 20, NUMBER 2, SUMMER 1992
©1992 all rights reserved

ISSN: 0736-9220

ON THE COVER

Brightly colored paddles worked well in days of wooden decks and iron men. An incoming aircraft is slightly high on glide slope according to CVG-14 Landing Signal Officer LCDR Ernie Courtney on board USS Randolph (CVA-15), April 1954. Photo by Howard Lawson.

Table of Contents : Air Plan

• BRIEF
  • From the Chairman
    CAPT W.D. Knutson, USN(Ret)
• VULTURE'S ROW
• FROM THE CATWALK
  • Where Are They Now? -- Zeke Cormier
    Barrett Tillman
  • The Further Adventures of Youthly Puresome Of Teeny, Tiny Tinker Tankers
    CDR Jack Woodul, USNR(Ret)
  • Almost An Ace
    Bob Butcher
• LAUNCH
  • The Life and Times of "The Blue Ghost": An Operational History of USS Lexington (CV/CVA/CVS/AVT-16), 1943-1991, Part One
    Robert J. Cressman
  • A Lexington Pictorial
  • At Marshal: Summer of 1942
    Barrett Tillman
• AT MARSHAL
  • Command Changes
  • Air Wing/Squadron Updates
  • Intruder with the Top Down
  • Blue Wolves at Work
    Photos by LT Chris Buhlmann, USN
  • CVW-15 Deploys to NAS Fallon
    Photo essay by LT Tom "Tumor" Twomey, USN
  • Hail and Farewell: MCAS El Toro's VMFA(AW)-225 and VMFA-531
    Photo essay by Bob Lawson
• MANNING THE SPARE
  • Twenty Years, Same Pilot, Same Plane
• RESPOT
  • Doolittle Raid Reenacted
    Carl Snow
  • USS Midway Decommissioned
    Carl Snow
• IN REVIEW
• WAVEOFFS & BOLTERS
• INSIGNIA PAGE
  • In Memoriam: Carrier Air Wing Six, 1 September 1948-1 April 1992

Executive Staff Members

• EDITOR : CAPT Steve Millikin, USN(Ret)
• MANAGING EDITOR : Jan C. Jacobs
• ASSOCIATE EDITORS
  • CAPT Wynn Foster, USN(Ret)
  • Barett Tillman
  • CWO4 Carl Snow, USN(Ret)
• CARRIER EDITOR : Robert J. Cressman
• EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
  • RADM James D. Ramage, USN(Ret)
  • Barrett Tillman
• CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
  • CDR Doug Siegfried, USN(Ret)
  • CDR Jack D. Woodul, USNR(Ret)
  • Hal Andrews
• CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS
  • Douglas D. Olson
  • Michael L. Grove
  • Keith Snyder

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