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From: creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Steve Creps)
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Subject: Re: WWII CV's
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Date: 13 May 89 02:25:59 GMT
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From: creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Steve Creps)
In article <6497@cbnews.ATT.COM> steinmetz!algol!welty@uunet.UU.NET (richard welty) writes:
>the Essex class Lexington was in active service as a training
>ship earlier in this decade, although i would imagine that it 
>has been deactiveated by now.

   I believe Lexington is still in service as a CVT. Just last week I saw
a recent videotape of flight operations aboard her. The ensign who showed
me the tape was talking in the present tense when he told me about Lexingon's
role as a CVT.

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