Aircraft Carrier USS Lexington 1935 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9788395157516)

The USS Lexington (CV-2) was the second aircraft carrier of Lexington class built by the United States, but the first used operationally; in fact the first was the USS Langley, but as an aircraft carrier she served only as an experimental ship. The history of the USS Lexington was troubled: in fact it was designed in 1916 to be an atypical battle cruiser, as little armored, but with heavy cannons. Because of the Washington Treaty of 1922 about the reduction of naval armaments, she was reclassified and converted into an aircraft carrier, capable of carrying a flight of 85 aircraft.


Author: Carlo Cestra
ISBN-10: 8395157517
ISBN-13: 9788395157516
Publisher: Kagero
Language: English
Published: 09/20/2018
Pages: 92
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 11.70h x 8.40w x 0.20d