USS LEXINGTON Former Crew Member

Name: LaCoss, Harold “Bud”

Service Dates: WWII - Discharged 1946

Rank/Duty Assigned: Machinist Mate

Bud was a machinist mate on an aircraft carrier, the USS LEXINGTON, during WWII. They experienced a violent storm, were hit by a suicide bomber, and were dangerously overloaded when they took on the entire crew of a sinking battleship, but he helped to keep the planes running and the pilots safe until his discharge in 1946.