USS LEXINGTON Former Crew Member

Name: Tastsides, George “Tux” †

Service Dates: June - Sept. 1945

Rank/Duty Assigned: Ensign/LtJG “B” Division and “2nd” Division

Comment: My father, George “Tux” Tastsides was a F6F Hellcat fighter pilot attached with Fighting Squadron 94 during the latter stages of World War II. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) on August 9, 1945 for sinking a Japanese Destroyer while on a combat mission over Honshu, Japan. He retired from the Navy in June 1965 and was forever proud of his sevice aboard the Lady Lex and the United States Navy.

Robert G. Tastsides
CDR, USNR, ret.

Submitted by Son: Robert G. Tastsides