USS Lexington, CV-2, artifact

[ivanbartov]

My uncle was a crew member on the Lexington for many years before WWII, and he was on board in July of 1937. He took part in the search for Amelia Earhart when contact was lost with her plane near Howland Is. A few years before his death, knowing I was an aviation history buff and interested in the Earhart case, he gave me an original search order typed up in the comm center of the Lex, with orders for the air squadrons to search for wreckage or survivors. An interesting piece of memorabilia from a ship now resting at the bottom of the Coral Sea. My uncle was serving elsewhere during the Lex's last battle.

If I can figure out how to scan it and post it I will, but I'm not too tech savvy with that kind of thing. I may end up trying a digital photo to attach here later.

[ivanbartov]

Sorry about the lack of a photo so far. I took one with my cheap little digital camera, but the size of the file is too large to accept on this site as an attachment. Being a techno-phobe, I can't figure out how to reduce the size from several MB to a few hundred KB so it will fit.

[Nick D]

If you upload your photos to photobucket.com you can resize them there(I believe 15'' is the largest this site accepts before it cuts off without attaching it)

[Goranwc51]

Hi John,

You can send it to me in an e-mail and I'll re-size it for you.

goran_noren@yahoo.com

Rgds

Goran N
Sweden