USS LEXINGTON Former Crew Member

Name: Shaia, Charles P. †

Service Dates: 1959

Rank/Duty Assigned: HMS3 / Medical

Comment: Charles (Charlie) loved the Navy. He loved the Lexington and spoke of his shipmates often. He graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in Microbiology and died suddenly March 9th, 1980 of a brain aneurism.

His sons – Scott and Chris Shaia