Summary and 4 Points You Need to Know: The U.S. Navy’s decision not to build battlecruisers before World War II, focusing on slow, heavily armored battleships, limited its early Pacific War ...

The U.S. Navy’s Missed Opportunity With Lexington-Class Battlecruisers The United States Navy (USN) entered World War II when Japanese aircraft battered its fleet of old, slow battleships at ...

The Lexington was the fifth U.S. Navy ship to be named after the opening battle of the American Revolution.It and its sister ship the Saratoga were originally designed to serve as battlecruisers ...

A team led by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen says it has found the wreck of the USS Lexington, an aircraft carrier that was sunk in World War II with the loss of more than 200 sailors.

Originally conceived as a battlecruiser, Lexington was redesigned to be one of America’s first operational aircraft carriers in 1922. The Imperial Japanese Navy sank Lexington on May 8, 1942 ...

The American aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga were built in the 1920s, converted from the unfinished hulls of battlecruisers made redundant by the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. One of ...

According to Allen's website, the Lexington was originally commissioned as a battlecruiser but was launched as an aircraft carrier in 1925. The giant ship took part in the Coral Sea conflict along ...

USS Lexington, nicknamed "Lady Lex", was originally designed as a battlecruiser but was converted into an early aircraft carrier for the US Navy.