1 Website, The United States Navy, USS Lexington (CV-16)
2 Officers and Men of the U.S.S. Lexington, 1946, Tarawa to Tokyo, Unknown Publisher, Also available online, transcribd by Sabrina Roper, www.angelfire.com/tx5/usslexington/index.html
3 Chester Zeller, "Re: Lexington." e-mail to A. Whitson. October 24, 2004.
4 Rabenstine, G.R. Ancient Order of the Deep, 1943,Original Shellback Card.
5 Helen Rabenstine, questionairre response to A. Whitson, October 23, 2004.
6 Chester Zeller, questionairre response to A Whitson, october, November 2004.
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1 Jake Whitson, U.S.S. Lexington, May 2002, corpus Christi, Texas.
George "Ray" Rabenstine History Page
2 Barbara Rabenstine, George "Ray Rabenstine and brother Wally Rabenstine, mid-1930's, Mount Holly, New Jersey.
3 Rae Gonzalez, George "Ray" Rabenstine Rancocas Valley Regional High School, 1939, Mount Holly, New Jersey.
4 Naval Aviation Has a Place for You, 1941, U.S. G.P.O., Washington DC, Northwestern University. Available online at www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/collections/wwii-posters/ Call number: 359.22309 N318
5 Rae Gonzalez, George "Ray" Rabenstine in Navy Whites, 1942 to 1945.
6 Officers and Men of the U.S.S. Lexington, 1946, Tarawa to Tokyo, V-14 Air, V-5 Division. Also available online, courtesy of Sabrina Roper, www.angelfire.com/tx5/usslexington/divisions.html
7 Helen Rabenstine, Rabenstine, G.R. Ancient Order of the Deep, 1943,Original Shellback Card
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8 Rae Gonzalez, Helen Rabenstine, 1943, Mount Holly, New Jersey.
9 Rae Gonzalez, Helen Rabenstine and Infant Rae, november 1942, Mount Holly, New Jersey.
10 Rae Gonzalez, Ray and Helen Rabenstine, 1945, Pasco, Washington.
11 Rae Gonzalez, Ray Rabenstine and Jimmy Nolan, circa 1943.
12 Of course I Can! : I'm patriotic as can be -- and ration points won't worry me! 1944, U.S. G.P.O., Washington DC, Northwestern University. Available online at www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/collections/wwii-posters/ Call number: A80. 8: C16
Chester "Pete" Zeller History Pages
13 Chester Zeller, U.S.S. Babbit and Lexington Veteran Chester "Pete" Zeller, Early 2000's, Florida.
14 John W. Holmes, U.S.S. Babbitt in New York Harbor, Circa 1938. Available online at www.navsource.org/archives/05/128.htm
15 U.S.S. Squalus,1939, Protmouth Naval Yard,kittery ME, US National Archives, Photo number 19-N-109860, Bureau of Ships Collection of the US Naval Archives. Available online at www.navsource.org/archives/08/08192.htm
16 LA McMullen, Location where a Japanese Kamikaze hit the U.S.S. Lexington on November 6, 1944. Early 2000's, Photograph courtesy of chester Zeller.
17 Navy and Marine Corps Awards and Decorations. Available online at www.usmilitary.about.com/library/milinfo/navawards/blnavawards.htm
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18 William Flowers, 2000.
19 William Flowers, 1999.
20 William Flowers, Me and my Misty Mate, 2004.
21 William Flowers, Lake Dokan Iraq, 2004.
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