USS LEXINGTON Former Crew Member

Name: McKoy, James Robert †

Email: [email protected]

Service Dates: 1943-?

Rank/Duty Assigned: Metalsmith

My father served on the Lexington beginning in 1943.  He was a metalsmith.  He shared a story about the Kamakazi attack in Nov 1943.  He and a priest helped to gather body parts from the flight deck after the attack.  So shocking for a young man of 18 years from North Carolina.