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Remark on participating in hazardous bad-weather training flights alongside his aviators aboard USS Lexington (CV-2) while King was Chief of the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. "Lady Lex" was the last ship King commanded before moving up to flag rank. As quoted by Thomas B. Buell, Master of Sea Power: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (1980), Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, hardcover, p. 105