Excerpt from The American Legion Monthly, Vol. 17: November, 1934 Airplane carriers were not to exceed tons or mount guns in excess of eight - inch calibre. Exception was made for the United States in the Saratoga and the Lexington, originally designed as battle cruisers. What did it mean to the United States at that moment? It meant we had to scrap down more than any other nation. We stopped construction of several splendid vessels, soon to be badly needed, and blew into Davy Jones's locker a lot of usable craft, along with considerable pride of the Navy! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.