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Connfire -> RE: USA ship art (3/16/2011 7:45:14 PM)
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Yes, I was the Lexington BC guy, and that is sharp artwork. [:)]
Ever since I was a kid and started getting into naval history I had a facination with the big, beautiful, fast, flawed, ill-fated BCs. Maybe I got into the Lex's because they are the closest the USA ever came to actually having BCs. They're one of the interesing "what ifs" of the era - would CV development have been slowed if they were completed? Any that survived Pearl Harbor would probably have become CV escorts, but would the USA have been more aggressive in getting closer to the Japanese if they had fast, big gunned escorts in 1942? Or would they have tried to use them in hit-and-run raids, like the Japanese used Hiei and Kirishima in the Solomons? Would they have died quickly under air attack like Repulse? Lots of possibilities.
Even after they were converted, Lexington and Saratoga made attractive CVs too, in my opinion.
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