[Vigilanteman]

The Lexington, Yorktown and Hornet, as you know, were all recommissioned versions of the ships of the same name which were sunk at the battles of Coral Sea, Midway and the Guadalcanal campaign, respectively.

It is too bad that the U.S.S. Enterprise, which survived all three battles, wasn't saved.

[tanknetter]

The Lexington, Yorktown and Hornet, as you know, were all recommissioned versions of the ships of the same name which were sunk at the battles of Coral Sea, Midway and the Guadalcanal campaign, respectively.

They weren't really recommissioned versions. They (along with Wasp, which was also sunk during Guadalcanal) were completely new ships of a different (Essex) class that were originally ordered (if not laid down) under different names. When their namesakes were sunk early in the war the names were reassigned to the new Essex-class ships to both carry on the legacy AND as a disinformation measure.