USA / DEFENCE: Aircraft carriers Saratoga and Lexington scrapped (1929)

EMPIRE NEWS NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Aircraft carriers of the United States Navy - USS Saratoga and USS Lexington - sailing at sea. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Floating aerodromes. U.S. authorities have decided to scrap, as “too expensive“, the mighty aircraft carriers - the Saratoga USA: EXT / AT SEA USS Saratoga (aircraft carrier) along SLATE INFORMATION: ...and the Lexington USS Lexington (aircraft carrier) along Background: Aircraft carriers of the United States Navy - USS Saratoga and USS Lexington - sailing at sea. FILM ID: VLVA9SQFNIUT47W2HAVU2NLJPXXOJ To license this film, visit Archive: Reuters Archive managed by: British Pathé