The day after my dad got off. It was used as one of the test ships during the testing of the A-Bomb. Would U.S.A be the same place today if this never took place? Dan

WOW... (with all due respect) an unfortunate way for an old warrior to go...

But it must have been a site.

PT 🙂

Wow, again.

At least she wasn't cut up into razor blades like her sister, the Big E (CV-6).
William F. "Bull" Halsey led an attempt after the war to turn Enterprise into a museum. That would have been a grand tribute for one of the most decorated ships in naval history.

With the arrival of large numbers of Essex-class carriers, Saratoga was surplus to postwar requirements, and she was assigned to Operation Crossroads at Bikini Atoll to test the effect of the atomic bomb on naval vessels. She survived the first blast, an air burst on 1 July, with only minor damage, but was mortally wounded by the second on 25 July, an underwater blast which was detonated under a landing craft 500 yards from the carrier. Salvage efforts were prevented by radioactivity, and seven and one-half hours after the blast, with her funnel collapsed across her deck, Saratoga slipped beneath the surface of the lagoon. She was struck from the Navy list on 15 August 1946.