File:USS Lexington (CVA-16) underway at sea on 16 August 1958.jpg

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Description	English: The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CVA-16) underway in the Western Pacific, with Carrier Air Group 21 (CVG-21), on 16 August 1958. Just eight days later, on 24 August, Communist Chinese artillery began shelling the Nationalist Chinese islands of Quemoy and Matsu, prompting the Blue Ghost´s (as Lexington was called) deployment to the Taiwan Straits at various times during the next four months, along with other units of the U.S. Seventh Fleet.
Date	16 August 1958
Source	Official U.S. Navy Photograph CVA-16-2720-(L)-8-58 available on Navsource.org
Author	U.S. Navy

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