"USS Saratoga" Topic
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Tango01  | 20 Sep 2019 10:29 p.m. PST |
Nice model.
From here
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Armand |
| d88mm1940 | 21 Sep 2019 11:29 a.m. PST |
Trivia time: Why does the Sara have a black stripe painted on her stack? (I know.) |
| Tango01 | 21 Sep 2019 12:04 p.m. PST |
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| 21eRegt | 22 Sep 2019 10:15 a.m. PST |
I assume the stripe was there because of striking physical similarity to the USS Lexington. |
| skipper John | 24 Sep 2019 8:19 a.m. PST |
In the 70's I worked with a fellow that was on the Saratoga. Wish we had talked more about it. He was the only survivor from his gunnery crew. |
| Ammianus | 10 Mar 2020 3:27 p.m. PST |
Because she was visually identical to Lexington, a large black stripe was painted on her funnel to help sailors differentiate her, and it led to her nickname Stripe Stacked Sara. |
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