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Friday 16 September 2011

American aircraft carrier USS Saratoga in 1928

The photo was published in the Dutch Gelderland in woord en beeld magazine dated 27 January 1928, p. 604.


The aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) with as nick names Sara Maru, Sister Sara and Stripe-Stacked Sara was ordered in 1917 to be build as a battle cruiser of the Lexington-class, laid down on 25 September 1920 at the yard of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, reclassified as a carrier on 1 July 1922, launched on 7 April 1925, commissioned on 16 November 1927 and sunk during a A-bomb test on 25 July 1946.