USS LEXINGTON Former Crew Member

Name: Ridgway, Kenneth R.

Service Dates: July 20, 1943 - January 6, 1946

Rank/Duty Assigned: Aviation Radioman Gunner 3/C Joined Air Group 20 on the USS Lexington December, 1944 in the China Sea after the Hong Kong raids.

Comment: VT 20 went on two raids while I was with them; one on the Southern port on Taiwan and one on Io Jima a little island off of Iwo Jima then the USS Lexington came back to San Diego for refitting in 1945. I came back with them and went into PB4Y-2 Training in Jacksonville FA and Hutchinson, KS.