J. Lindsley Foote served on the USS Coral Sea aircraft carrier, which had just finished construction, serving mainly as a radar operator, but also had a battle station where he was able to see planes land. SAVOY — J. Lindsley Foote served on the then-new USS Coral Sea aircraft carrier — among the biggest ships in the Navy. It was so gargantuan, in fact, that it was too wide to pass through the Panama Canal, he noted. Foote, 91, grew up on a farm south of Cleveland.

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