{"id":59718,"date":"2025-11-21T20:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/59718\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T20:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:03:15","slug":"wwii-veteran-uss-lexington-now-a-corpus-christi-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/59718\/","title":{"rendered":"WWII veteran USS Lexington now a Corpus Christi treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      <a class=\"expand_image\" href=\"#\" aria-label=\"Expand Image\" data-uri=\"\/sites\/lavacacountytoday.com\/files\/2025-11\/Entrance%20to%20the%20USS%20Lexington%20-%20use.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Entrance to the USS Lexington - use.jpg\" width=\"828\" height=\"420\" alt=\"Entrance to USS Lexington\" class=\"image-style-article-420\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption is-sans-serif is-size-7\">Entrance to USS Lexington<\/p>\n<p>Entrance to USS Lexington<\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"expand_image\" href=\"#\" aria-label=\"Expand Image\" data-uri=\"\/sites\/lavacacountytoday.com\/files\/2025-11\/inside%20the%20bridge%20of%20the%20USS%20Lexington%20-%20use.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/inside the bridge of the USS Lexington - use.jpg\" width=\"598\" height=\"420\" alt=\"Inside the Lexington's bridge\" class=\"image-style-article-420\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption is-sans-serif is-size-7\">Inside the Lexington&#8217;s bridge<\/p>\n<p>Inside the Lexington&#8217;s bridge<\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"expand_image\" href=\"#\" aria-label=\"Expand Image\" data-uri=\"\/sites\/lavacacountytoday.com\/files\/2025-11\/Looking%20forward%20from%20the%20bridge%20to%20the%20flight%20deck%20-use.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Looking forward from the bridge to the flight deck -use.jpg\" width=\"537\" height=\"420\" alt=\"Looking forward from the bridge to the flight deck\" class=\"image-style-article-420\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption is-sans-serif is-size-7\">Looking forward from the bridge to the flight deck<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward from the bridge to the flight deck<\/p>\n<p>Story &amp; Photos by Murray Montgomery \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0Staff Writer\u00a0Resting peacefully in Corpus Christi Bay, the USS Lexington is an impressive tribute to all those brave men who served aboard her in times of war. The greatest tribute should go to those men who took this great ship to fight against the Japanese in World War II. It was those men who would later become known as &#8220;The Greatest\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Entrance to USS Lexington Entrance to USS Lexington Inside the Lexington&#8217;s bridge Inside the Lexington&#8217;s bridge Looking forward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-59718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}