Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
USS Saratoga (CV-3) was a Lexington-class aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy during the 1920s. Originally designed as a battlecruiser , she was converted into one of the Navy's first aircraft carriers during construction to comply with the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.
The Lexington-class aircraft carriers were a pair of aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy (USN) during the 1920s, the USS Lexington (CV-2) and USS Saratoga (CV-3). The ships were built on hulls originally laid down as battlecruisers after World War I , but under the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, all U.S. battleship and ...
USS Saratoga (CV/CVA/CVB-60) was the second of four Forrestal-class supercarriers built for the United States Navy in the 1950s. Saratoga was the sixth U.S. Navy ship, and the second aircraft carrier, to be named for the Battles of Saratoga in the American Revolutionary War .
A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941–1945. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-097-1. Fry, John (2000). USS Saratoga (CV-3): An Illustrated History of the Legendary Aircraft Carrier 1927–1946. Schiffer Publishing. ISBN 0-7643-0089-X. Gailey, Harry A. (1991). Bougainville, 1943–1945: The Forgotten Campaign. Lexington ...
The Aircraft Carrier USS Saratoga, Public domain photo from history.navy.mil {{PD-USGov-Military-Navy}} en:Image:Uss saratoga cv3.jpg File usage The following 12 pages use this file:
In September 1926, he reported to the Brown-Boveri Electric Company in Camden, New Jersey, to oversee the construction of the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3), which was commissioned in 1927 as the second American aircraft carrier and the first one capable of operating with the battle fleet. He became her first executive officer on November ...
USS Saratoga (CV-3) USS Princeton (CVL-23) USN Task Group 50.3 (Montgomery) USS Essex (CV-9) USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) USS Independence (CVL-22) Invasion of Makin Atoll (13–23 November 1943) Gilbert Islands US Task Forces ? and 52 (Turner): USS Enterprise (CV-6) First carrier-launched night flights; USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56) Sunk by torpedo from ...
The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) sinking in Bikini Atoll lagoon after bomb damage sustained during the "Baker" atomic test of Operation Crossroads, at 15:40h, 25 July 1946. The battleship USS New York (BB-34) is visible on the right, two Sims-class destroyers on the left. Date: 25 July 1946: Source