USS LEXINGTON Former Crew Member

Name: Romano, Howard D.

Email: [email protected]

Service Dates: Sept. 1962 to Dec. 1962

Rank/Duty Assigned: Airman assigned to V-1 Div. Flight Crew

Was on The Lex in Brooklyn Navy Yard and when Cuban Missile Crisis broke out and the ship had cut its yard period shot and head out to Mayport, FL. Transferred to USS. Shangri-La CVA-38 in at the end of Dec. on a swap with crew member TAD to The Lex from the Shang.