The Saratoga and Her Aircraft
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America's aircraft carriers proved decisive in formulating naval aviation doctrine and tactics.
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Rear Adm. Joseph Mason Reeves’s “attack” on the Panama Canal with the Saratoga during a naval exercise in 1929 proved the aircraft carrier’s capability as an independent and offensive naval weapon.
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National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution (SI 2001-14052).
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SI 2001-14052
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1929
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