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USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) was the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, converted in 1920 from the collier USS Jupiter (Navy Fleet Collier No. 3), and also the US Navy's first turbo-electric-powered ship.
USS Langley (CV-1) Seznam válečných lodí ztracených během druhé světové války; Usage on de.wikipedia.org Geschichte der Flugzeugträger; USS Langley (CV-1) Glattdeckträger; Usage on es.wikipedia.org USS Langley (CV-1) Anexo:Cronología de los portaviones; Collier; Usage on fi.wikipedia.org Lentotukialus; USS Langley (CV-1) Usage on ...
CV-1 Langley: Langley : 20 March 1922 27 February 1942 19 years, 344 days Sunk near Cilacap, Java in 1942 [13] [14] [15] CV-2 Lexington: Lexington (lead ship) 14 December 1927 8 May 1942 14 years, 145 days Sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942 [15] [16] CV-3 Saratoga: Lexington: 16 November 1927 25 July 1946 18 years, 253 days
USS Langley (DE‑131), laid down 10 July 1942 and renamed Hammann on 1 August 1942; USS Langley (CVL-27), a light aircraft carrier commissioned in 1943, active in World War II, and transferred to France in 1951; Others: USS Langley, a Unix Space Server which provides proof of concept for global internet access via a nanosatellite constellation.
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1 Jul 1937 through 1 Mar 1943: Squadron suffix letters were discontinued. Squadrons were redesignated to conform with the hull number of the Aircraft Carrier to which they were assigned: [19] CV 2, CV 3, CV 4 and CV 5 (USS Yorktown (CV-5) was commissioned on 30 Sep 1937). USS Langley (CV 1) had ceased operating as an Aircraft Carrier by October ...
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The USA built small escort carriers, such as USS Bogue, as a stop-gap measure to provide air support for convoys and amphibious invasions. Subsequent light aircraft carriers, such as USS Independence, represented a larger, more "militarized" version of the escort carrier concept. Although the light carriers usually carried the same size air ...