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At anchor off Honolulu, with Diamond Head in the background, are the USS Saratoga (CV-3) in the foreground and the USS Lexington (CV-2), the largest and most powerful warships afloat at the time of their commissioning in 1927. The Lexington was eventually lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942, while the Saratoga was sunk as part of atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in July 1946.

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A Century of Naval Aviation

Compiled by Captain Tim Wooldridge, USN (Ret.)
January 2011
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Vol. 137/1/1,295
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In commemoration of the first 100 years of naval aircraft flying from ships, we kick off the year with a sampling of photographs from the Naval Institute Photo Archive assembled and identified by retired Navy Captain Tim Wooldridge, now a volunteer archivist. Many more photos from the archive will be posted on the Naval Institute Web site, with a new collection from the various eras of naval aviation history presented each month. We will survey that history by several means throughout the year, so stay tuned.

Captain Tim Wooldridge

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