USS LEXINGTON Former Crew Member

Name: Schultz, Gene

Email: [email protected]

Service Dates: 1961-1965

Rank/Duty Assigned: ABH3 Flight Deck Catapults Safety PO

1961 WestPac Cruise South China Sea

Stayed on the Lex when she changed oceans and went to Pensacola.  I was onboard when she plowed through Capehorn.  Man, what a trip that was.  We made Naval History that day by flying AD’s off the deck.  Quentin C. Cromlin was the Captain.  We made even more Naval History when he took the Lex up the Mighty Mississippi to New Orleans.  That was fun!  Capt. Cromlin was the best Captain we ever had the 4 years I spent on the Lex.  Everybody loved him and we all did our best to make him proud.