USS Saratoga San Francisco Bay
USS Saratoga San Francisco
USS Saratoga CV-3
USS Saratoga NAS North Island
USS Saratoga underway
USS Saratoga, Enterprise and Hornet Alameda
USS Saratoga with Measure 32/11A camouflage, Puget Sound Navy Yard
USS Saratoga
USS Saratoga 1935
USS Saratoga 1944
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USS Saratoga
USS Saratoga 1928
USS Saratoga 1943
USS Saratoga moored at Ford Island
USS Saratoga
USS Saratoga after modernization, superstructure with radars
USS Saratoga after repair from damage at Iwo Jima 1945
Aerial view of USS Saratoga en-route to Rabaul Island November 1943
Martin T4M-1s of VT-2B on USS Saratoga 1932
USS Saratoga at Ford Island Pearl Harbor 1944, color photo
USS Saratoga bow view
Fires on USS Saratoga after Japanese attack off Chichi Jima 21 March 1945
Boeing F4B-4 of VF-68 take-off from USS Saratoga 1934
Fires aboard Saratoga after Japanese Attack off Chichi Jima 21 February 1945
USS Saratoga inter-war period
USS Saratoga (CV-3) in 1937
USS Lexington viewed from flight deck of USS Saratoga in 1932
USS Saratoga inter-war period, aerial view 11
Aircraft carriers: USS Langley (CV-1), USS Saratoga (CV-3) and USS Lexington (CV-2), inter-war period
Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) transiting the Panama Canal
USS Saratoga (CV-3) underway in 1944
Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga 2 inter-war period
USS Saratoga CV-3 underway, inter-war period 4
Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga inter-war period 5
USS Saratoga CV-3 inter-war period 3
Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga inter-war period 1
Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga underway, inter-war period 8
USS Saratoga CV-3 inter-war period 6
Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga CV-3 Panama Canal
Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga inter-war period 9
USS Saratoga inter-war period
USS Saratoga and USS Langley – inter-war period
Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga in 1932 2
Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga in 1932
Fires aboard aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) after Kamikaze attack off Chichi Jima 21 February 1945
USS Saratoga (CV-3) inter-war period 7
Battling flames on the flight deck of the USS Saratoga CV-3 caused by one of seven Kamikaze strikes on July 13th 1945, Iwo Jima
USS Ranger, USS Saratoga and USS Lexington during Problem XIX Maneuvers (April-May 1938)
Firefighters aboard USS Saratoga CV-3 fighting fires after Japanese attack off Chichi Jima, Japan, 21 February 1945
Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga CV-3
USS Saratoga in Marshalls- 8 February 1944
U.S. aircraft carrier (either the USS Lexington or the Saratoga) firing it’s 8 inch guns at practice target during patrol duty in the Pacific – 1942
USS Lexington CV-2, USS Saratoga CV-3 and USS Ranger CV-4 – Honolulu April 1936
Carrier USS Saratoga CV-3 bow
USS Saratoga takes hits off Iwo Jima 21 February 1945
Aircraft Carrier USS Saratoga CV-3
USS Saratoga CV-3 aircraft carrier
USS Saratoga CV-3 destroyed hanger deck February 1945
Carrier USS Saratoga CV-3 Hit 7 times off of Okinawa – 21 February 1945
Lexington-class aircraft carrier.
Launched: 7 April 1925
Commissioned: 16 November 1927
Complement: ~2800 men
Displacement: 43746 tonnes (maximum)
Main Armament: 8 x 203 mm L/55 (4 × 2) – later 127 mm
Fate: Sunk by atomic bomb test, Bikini Atoll, 25 July 1946 (Operation Crossroads)
Bibliography:
- John Fry: USS Saratoga CV-3. An Illustrated History of the Legendary Aircraft Carrier, 1927-1946, Schiffer Military History
- Steve Wiper: Lexington Class Carriers, Warship Pictorial 11, Classic Warships Publishing 2001
- Grzegorz Nowak: Lexington, Saratoga cz.1 and 2 AJ-Press Encyklopedia Okretow Wojennych 20 and 21 (polish)
- David Doyle: USS Saratoga Squadron at Sea 34004
- Mark Stille, Jim Laurier: US Navy Ships vs Kamikazes 1944-45 Osprey Duel
- US NAVY FACT FILE Aircraft Carriers CV-3 USS Saratoga
- Mark Stille, Tony Bryan: US Navy Aircraft Carriers 1922-45: Prewar classes Osprey New Vanguard 114
- Robert C. Stern: The Lexington Class Carriers