Honors
Lexington received two battle stars for her World War II service. In June 1942, five days after the Navy's public acknowledgment of the sinking, workers at the Quincy shipyard where the ship had been built twenty-one years earlier cabled Navy Secretary Frank Knox and proposed a change in the name of a carrier currently under construction there to Lexington (from Cabot). Knox agreed to the proposal and Cabot was renamed as the fifth Lexington on 16 June 1942.
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