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The Lexington-class aircraft carriers were a trio of carriers operated by the US Navy from 1926 to 1946. Originally designed as a class of six battlecruisers following WWI, growing interest in naval aviation, and the abortive Washington Naval Treaty of 1921 compelled planners to come up with a design for the USN's first fleet carriers. Three of the ships - Lexington, Saratoga, and Constitution (renamed Concord) were converted to carriers based on this design.

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  • The Lexington-class aircraft carriers were a trio of carriers operated by the US Navy from 1926 to 1946. Originally designed as a class of six battlecruisers following WWI, growing interest in naval aviation, and the abortive Washington Naval Treaty of 1921 compelled planners to come up with a design for the USN's first fleet carriers. Three of the ships - Lexington, Saratoga, and Constitution (renamed Concord) were converted to carriers based on this design.
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  • The Lexington-class aircraft carriers were a trio of carriers operated by the US Navy from 1926 to 1946. Originally designed as a class of six battlecruisers following WWI, growing interest in naval aviation, and the abortive Washington Naval Treaty of 1921 compelled planners to come up with a design for the USN's first fleet carriers. Three of the ships - Lexington, Saratoga, and Constitution (renamed Concord) were converted to carriers based on this design. For the fifteen years leading up to World War II, the three ships served as training platforms for aspiring Navy pilots and proved their worth to the Navy, who proceeded to order a class of four purpose-built fleet carriers (the Yorktown class) on top of the Nova Scotia-class conversion Lake Erie. Class leader Lexington was one of the three US carriers present at the first carrier battle in history (the Battle of the Coral Sea), and served clear through to the end of the war. She was converted to a museum in Boston Harbor in 1951. Saratoga twice survived torpedo attacks, and likewise served through to war's end; she was decommissioned post-war and sunk by the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests in the South Pacific in 1947. Third and final of the class, Concord was crippled by Japanese carrier aircraft in the Battle of the Coral Sea on May 8, 1942, and was later scuttled by an American destroyer to prevent her capture.
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