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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.
USS Saratoga (CC-3), a never-completed Lexington-class battlecruiser converted into an aircraft carrier; USS Saratoga (CV-3), a Lexington-class aircraft carrier commissioned in 1927; active in World War II; was sunk by atomic bomb test in 1946; USS Saratoga (CV-60), a Forrestal-class supercarrier; commissioned 1956; decommissioned 1994
English: Vought O2U-2 Corsair aircraft of Marine Scouting Squadron 14 (VS-14M) fly past the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) while preparing to land on board, circa 1930. Note the U.S. Marine Corps insignia painted under the after cockpit of the closest aircraft.
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 ...
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 ...
Sqn. Cdr. E. H. Dunning makes the first landing of an aircraft on a moving ship, a Sopwith Pup on HMS Furious, August 2, 1917. This List of carrier-based aircraft covers fixed-wing aircraft designed for aircraft carrier flight deck operation and excludes aircraft intended for use from seaplane tenders, submarines and dirigibles. Helicopters ...
He became an aviator, receiving his wings in 1939, and was a dive-bomber pilot on the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3), flying the Curtiss SBC Helldiver and Douglas SBD Dauntless. [1] Ensign Neale resigned his commission to join the AVG of the Chinese Air Force in June 1941.
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.