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Old March 9th, 2018 #5
Ray Allan
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Lexington's nearly identical sister ship Saratoga (CV-3) ended up as a target, along with other surplus warships for the two nuclear bomb tests, called Able and Baker, of Operation Crossroads at Bikini Atoll in 1946. The second blast occurred underwater and sunk the carrier.


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