Lexington Database

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The Last Refit – USS Lexington (CV-2) Before And After March/April 1942 Pearl Harbor Refit

by Michael Smith on April 14, 2024 · in Ships · 8 ≡

This double build of 1/700 Trumpeter and Meng kits is intended to show how the aging U.S. carrier Lexington was refitted in two and a half weeks at Pearl Harbor in the spring of 1942 to improve her defensive capabilities. The carrier's [...]

1/72 SBD-5 Dauntless – VB-16, April 1944.

by Michael Smith on February 21, 2024 · in Aviation · 11 ≡

“White 35” was a SBD-5 assigned to VB-16 on the USS Lexington (CV-16) in April 1944. It was flown by LTJG George Blacken & RM Leo Boulanger. I used a 1996 boxing of the Hasegawa SBD-5, which came with decals for White 45 of the [...]

Butch O’Hare F4F-3 refit

by Michael Smith on July 29, 2023 · in Aviation · 9 ≡

In May of 2017 as part of my 75th anniversary of the Pacific War battles of 1942 I built a 1/72 Academy/Minicraft F4F of Butch O’Hare’s F4F from when he won the Medal of Honor for engaging nine Japanese bombers attacking his carrier, [...]