USS Lexington (The Blue Ghost)
On the aft side of the island you see a Japanese Rising Sun flag with a black border. This flag indicates the exact location where in November 1944 a Japanese Kamikaze plane (code name Zeke) crashed into USS Lexington, killing 50 of her crew.HM Number | HM1TEX |
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Marker Condition | No reports yet |
Date Added | Monday, August 1st, 2016 at 9:04am PDT -07:00 |
UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 14R E 658680 N 3077759 |
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Decimal Degrees | 27.81508333, -97.38898333 |
Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 27° 48.905', W 97° 23.339' |
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 27° 48' 54.3" N, 97° 23' 20.34" W |
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Closest Postal Address | At or near 2914 N Shoreline Blvd, Corpus Christi TX , US |
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