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- See also: USS Lexington (disambiguation)
Parent topics
- Aircraft carrier [r]: A warship designed to launch and recover combat aircraft and aircraft that support military operations [e]
- Lexington-class [r]: A two-ship class of aircraft carriers, the first built by the United States Navy for operations rather than experimentation; converted from cancelled battlecruiser hulls [e]
Subtopics
- Battle of the Coral Sea [r]: Fought in May 1942, the first battle between naval forces built around aircraft carriers, in which the opposing United States and Japanese ships never saw one another; it was a tactical Japanese defeat and strategic U.S. victory [e]
- Battlecruiser [r]: A large warship with guns comparable to those of a battleship, equal or greater speed, but less armor; "can catch what it can kill and run away from what can kill it"; had disastrous experiences when fighting true battleships [e]
- USS Saratoga (CV-3) [r]: Lexington-class U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, converted from a battle cruiser hull in 1927, and serving throughout World War II; sunk in 1946 during nuclear weapon tests [e]
- USS Indianapolis (CA-35) [r]: Heavy cruiser of the U.S. Navy Portland-class, built in 1932 and with a distinguished record before and during the Second World War; often the flagship of Admiral Raymond Spruance; sunk by a Japanese submarine in 1945 with a long delay before she was missed, leading to the largest loss of life of any single-ship disaster in the history of the United States Navy [e]
- Lexington-class [r]: A two-ship class of aircraft carriers, the first built by the United States Navy for operations rather than experimentation; converted from cancelled battlecruiser hulls [e]