USS Saratoga
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USS
Saratoga was a Lexington class aircraft carrier laid down
by New York Shipbuilding company in September 1920. She
was launched in April 1925, and was commissioned two years
later. During second world war she participated in
operations at Gualdalcanal, Rabaul, Gilbert Island and the
Marshall Islands. Her last action in second world war was
as support at the invasion of Iwo Jima and raids over the
Japanese mainland in the summer 1945. She was damaged
several times during the war, and was attacked by both
Kamikaze airplanes and submarines. After the Japanese
capitulation in August 1945, she was deemed too old for
further service, and was assigned as a target ship for the
atomic bombs testing in Operation Crossroads. She survived
the first atomic bomb named Able, but under the second
underwater test 25.July 1946 she went down. The wreck rest
today on her keel as a gigantic Donald Duck wreck on a
depth of 15 to 50 meter.
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| GPS: 11° 35.195' N, 165° 30.515' E ( Source: Scuba Doctor )  Picture: USS Saratoga Courtesy of US Navy, Public domain |
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