“They were out to get us at all costs. From my post in the wheelhouse, there were many close calls form Jap bombs that came hurling down on the carrier from the Jap planes. Two of three times it seemed as if I could almost reach out and touch some of the bombs as they dropped past our station”, recalled Manitowoc’s Edward Aschenbrenner of the sinking of the USS Lexington during World War II. Edward was 24 years old when he was a wheelmen on the U.S. aircraft carrier Lexington when it sank during Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942.