Title: USS Saratoga, June, 1935 Description: The 38,746-ton carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3), commissioned one month earlier than her sister ship, USS Lexington (CV-2), on November 16, 1927, with a complement of 2,122 officers and enlisted men, and carrying ninety-one aircraft; she is shown at sea, some her planes spotted on deck with a plane, top right, about to land; to distinguish her to her pilots, since she was identical to the Lexington, a large black vertical stripe was painted on the Saratoga's funnel, causing her crew to call her "Stripe-Stacked Sara" Date: June 6, 1935 Category: World War II Keywords: aircraft carriers, airplanes, aviation, carriers, U.S. Navy, U.S. warships Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 1980 x 1605 (3.18 MPixels) (1.23) Print Size: 16.8 x 13.6 cm; 6.6 x 5.3 inches File Size: 9.10 MB (9,546,766 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000010615 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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