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From: rick@pavlov.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Richard H. Miller)
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Subject: Re: Why the C in CV
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Date: 16 Jun 91 02:52:30 GMT
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From: rick@pavlov.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Richard H. Miller)


dmc@otto.yerkes.uchicago.edu (Dave Cole) writes:
> I'd just like to point out that the Saratoga (not Yorktown) and Lexington
> would have been battlecruisers (that's BC, not CB, usually, although since
> the USN has never had a BC, who knows?) 

Actually, according to the lists I have seen, battlecruisers were to carry
a type code of CC, not BC. The CBs were the large cruisers of WWI [Alaska
class] which carried 12" guns. In any case, as others have pointed out, 
the CV-1 for the Langley set the basic type code since aircraft carriers
were to be part of the scouting force instead of the battle force.

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