USS Lexington CV-2: From the 1920s to the Battle of Coral Sea in WWII
USS Lexington CV-2: From the 1920s to the Battle of Coral Sea in WWII When commissioned on December 14, 1927, USS Lexington and her sister ship, USS Saratoga, were the world's largest aircraft…
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USS Lexington CV-2: From the 1920s to the Battle of Coral Sea in WWII
When commissioned on December 14, 1927, USS Lexington and her sister ship, USS Saratoga, were the world's largest aircraft carriers. Both vessels were begun in 1920-21 as Lexington-class battle cruisers. The Lexington-class carriers, as the ships were known, were the results of an effort akin to making lemonade from lemons.
The Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 banned the constructions of such ships but permitted the conversion of such hulls into aircraft carriers. Lexington, originally designated CC-1 (indicating battle cruiser), would have been a formidable warship armed with eight 16-inch guns in four turrets. Accordingly, the "Lady Lex," as she became known to her crew, was finished as a massive 888-foot-long aircraft carrier and retained the originally planned revolutionary turboelectric drive.
From the outset, Lexington, initially carrying
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