USS Saratoga (CV-3): From the 1920s-30s and WWII Combat to Operation Crossroads

by David Doyle

USS Saratoga and her sister ship USS Lexington were the two largest aircraft carriers in the world until 1944. The keel of the battle cruiser USS Saratoga (CC-3) was laid by New York Shipbuilding in Camden, New Jersey, on September 25, 1920. Work on the fast, formidably armed battle cruiser was suspended in February 1922, when the Washington Naval Conference negotiated limits on warship sizes and numbers. Once the accord was signed, the decision was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764364669
• ISBN13: 9780764364662
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.5" x 8.7"