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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 ...
She had been reclassified as a "Multi-purpose Aircraft Carrier" (CV-60) on 30 June 1972. [3] During the first period, Saratoga lost four aircraft and three pilots. On 21 June, two of her F-4 Phantoms attacked three Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21s over North Vietnam. Dodging four surface-to-air missiles, they managed to down one of the MiG aircraft.
On 1 July 1938 the Saratoga Air Group was formally established as a unit. With the rapid fleet buildup of World War II, the Navy ceased naming its carrier air groups with the carrier's name and initially numbered them with the carrier's hull number, and on 25 September 1943 Saratoga Air Group was redesignated Carrier Air Group 3 (CVG-3).
Squadrons were assigned variously to the Aircraft Carriers USS Langley (CV 1), USS Lexington (CV 2), USS Saratoga (CV 3) and USS Ranger (CV 4) as needed to continue the development of ship based aircraft operations and tactics. VF-1B (first use) Top Hatters TS-1 F2B F4B: Air Det Pac Flt: Sep 1919-15 Jun 1920 VT-5(1st): 15 Jun 1920-7 Sep 1921
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Lexington, Saratoga. Mk 9 guns in four 190-ton twin turrets; removed in 1942 and added to Oahu coast defenses; 2 Pensacola-class (c. 1927) heavy cruisers: [1] Pensacola, Salt Lake City. Mk 9 (later Mk 14) guns in two 190-ton twin turrets and two 250-ton triple turrets; 6 Northampton-class (c. 1928) heavy cruisers: [1] 2 of 6: Chicago, Houston
USS Saratoga may refer to the following United States Navy warships: USS Saratoga (1780), an 18-gun sloop-of-war launched in 1780; lost at sea the following year; USS Saratoga (1814), a 26-gun corvette built on Lake Champlain for service in the War of 1812; USS Saratoga (1842), a 22-gun sloop-of-war; commissioned 1843; served until 1888