The Blue Ghost: A Photographic Log and Personal Narrative of the Aircraft Carrier U.S.S. Lexington in Combat Operation by Edward Steichen, Captain, USNR (ret.)
In this book Captain Steichen writes of his own experiences aboard one of our Fleet's most famous carriers - the Lexington - nicknamed The Blue Ghost by the Japanese who, whenever they claimed they had sent her down, found her cruising again in their backyard. With words and pictures he recaptures the tense atmosphere of the briefing room where the pilots await the order to man their planes; the swift action of "flight stations" when the carrier swings into the wind to launch her planes; the drama of the counterblow when the flat-top takes her share of punishment. He tells of the lull and exhaustion which follow battle, and of the long cruise back to harbor to heal her wounds, and rest her crew, and set her wounded ashore.
Captain Steichen was aboard the "Lex" while she was under the longest sustained air attack of the Navy's Pacific war, during which she was torpedoed.
