Battlecruisers were a unique class of warship designed to combine the heavy guns of a battleship with the speed of a cruiser, a compromise achieved by sacrificing armor protection. -This “speed is ...

December 2, 2021 Topic: Battlecruiser Region: United States. Blog Brand: The Reboot Tags: U.S. Navy World War II USS Lexington Aircraft Carriers Pacific War Why the United States Needed More ...

USS Lexington: The Battlecruiser That Became a U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Summary: The USS Lexington, a trailblazer in U.S. naval aviation, was discovered in 2018, lying two miles beneath the ...

4 Points You Need to Know: The U.S. Navy might have begun World War II with faster battlecruisers had it prioritized building them after World War I, instead of slow, heavily armored battleships.

Lying on the floor of the Coral Sea some 500 miles (800 kilometers) off the east coast of Australia, the wreckage from the USS Lexington, a U.S. aircraft carrier used in WWII, appears frozen in ...

According to a post on Allen's website, the Lexington, launched in 1925, was one of the first U.S. aircraft carriers built, but was originally meant as a battlecruiser. "Lady Lex," as the vessel ...