USS Saratoga CV-3

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Aerial view of USS Saratoga en-route to Rabaul Island November 1943

USS Saratoga transiting the Panama Canal

Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) transiting the Panama Canal

Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga 2 inter-war period

Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga CV-3

Aircraft Carrier USS Saratoga CV-3

USS Saratoga Panama Canal, inter-war period

Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga CV-3 Panama Canal

Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga in 1932

Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga in 1932 2

USS Saratoga CV-3 photographed before the war

Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga inter-war period 1

Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga inter-war period 5

USS Saratoga CV-3 underway, inter-war period 9

Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga inter-war period 9

USS Saratoga CV-3 underway, inter-war period 8

Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga underway, inter-war period 8

Aircraft carriers: USS Langley (CV-1), USS Saratoga (CV-3) and USS Lexington (CV-2), inter-war period

Fire fighteing detail, battling flames on the flight deck of the USS Saratoga

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

Boeing F4B-4 of VF-68 take-off from USS Saratoga 1934

Carrier USS Saratoga CV-3 bow

Carrier USS Saratoga CV-3 Hit 7 times off of Okinawa - 21 February 1945

Firefighters aboard USS Saratoga CV-3 fighting fires after Japanese attack off Chichi Jima, Japan, 21 February 1945

Fires aboard USS Saratoga (CV-3) after Kamikaze attack off Chichi Jima 21 February 1945

Fires aboard aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) after Kamikaze attack off Chichi Jima 21 February 1945

Fires aboard Saratoga after Japanese Attack off Chichi Jima 21 February 1945

Fires on USS Saratoga after Japanese attack off Chichi Jima 21 March 1945

Martin T4M-1s of VT-2B on USS Saratoga 1932

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, Saratoga CV-3 and Ranger CV-4 – April 1936

USS Lexington CV-2, USS Saratoga CV-3 and USS Ranger CV-4 - Honolulu April 1936

USS Lexington viewed from flight deck of USS Saratoga in 1932

USS Ranger, USS Saratoga and USS Lexington during Problem XIX Maneuvers (April-May 1938)

USS Saratoga

USS Saratoga (CV-3) in 1937

Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga inter-war period 7

USS Saratoga (CV-3) inter-war period 7

Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) in 1944

USS Saratoga (CV-3) underway in 1944

USS Saratoga 16

USS Saratoga 1928

USS Saratoga 1935

USS Saratoga 1943

USS Saratoga 1944

USS Saratoga after modernization, superstructure with radars

USS Saratoga after repair from damage at Iwo Jima 1945

USS Saratoga and USS Langley - inter-war period

USS Saratoga at Ford Island Pearl Harbor 1944, color photo

USS Saratoga bow view

USS Saratoga CV-3

USS Saratoga CV-3 aircraft carrier

USS Saratoga CV-3 destroyed hanger deck February 1945

Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga inter-war period 3

USS Saratoga CV-3 inter-war period 3

Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga underway, inter-war period 6

USS Saratoga CV-3 inter-war period 6

Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga inter-war period 4

USS Saratoga CV-3 underway, inter-war period 4

USS Saratoga CV-3 underway – 8 February 1944

USS Saratoga in Marshalls- 8 February 1944

USS Saratoga inter-war period

Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga CV-3 inter-war period 11

USS Saratoga inter-war period, aerial view 11

USS Saratoga moored at Ford Island

USS Saratoga NAS North Island

USS Saratoga San Francisco

USS Saratoga San Francisco Bay

USS Saratoga CV-3 takes hits off Iwo Jima 21 February 1945

USS Saratoga takes hits off Iwo Jima 21 February 1945

USS Saratoga underway

USS Saratoga with Measure 32/11A camouflage, Puget Sound Navy Yard

USS Saratoga, Enterprise and Hornet Alameda

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