Aircraft Carriers: USS Saratoga CV3

[Blackbat242]

After enlarging the photo, the twin-boom aircraft forward of the island are Northrop P-61s, not Lockheed P-38s.

[designeraccd]

Those big birds sure are P-61s! Teach me to blindly quote a photo caption!

Two more pics of her before the aircraft transport...........DFO

[Brian James]

USS Saratoga pictured at the rear of wharf Number 7, Woolloomooloo,Sydney,January 1st 1944.

[designeraccd]

Certainly NOT a common view of her, nice find Brian!! Note the 2 prewar DDs nearby.............

Here she is at Puget Sound in 1930........ DFO

[Brian James]

USS Saratoga pictured under refit at Puget Sound Navy Yard in May 1942.

[Brian James]

USS Saratoga shown sporting her Design 32/11A camouflage livery,Puget Sound,September 7th 1944.

[designeraccd]

The old girl under construction in the early 20s as a battle cruiser....... DFO

[Brian James]

USS Saratoga pictured on June 6th 1935.

[designeraccd]

SARA and Big E, 42.....probably invasion of Guadalcanal?? DFO

[Brian James]

The incomplete hull of Lexington Class Battlecruiser USS Saratoga pictured at New York Shipbuilding Company Shipyards at Camden, New Jersey on March 8th 1922, construction had been suspended, pending her conversion to an Aircraft Carrier.