Dead ahead view, running trials after overhaul. May 14, 1945, Puget Sound, Wash

Flat Top ! ! !

Being a new "rookie" shipbuilder, I can appreciate what it takes to make one of these in the time they did it, with the technology of the time.

"Look ma, no catapult!"

Cool Picture.

JDL

coool

I feel like I am watching the Military channel

Is this the Essex, by any chance?

A later incarnation of the USS Lexington. Now at Corpus Christi as a museum.

Is that a wood deck?

An Essex Class Carrier -- wood flight deck.

Some teak decks used on carriers, but most were made of Douglas fir.

Absolutely amazing! Makes me appreciate the older Vets even more. All of our fighting men and women are brave, but the technology that is bemoned today as being out of date is light years ahead of what they had to work with less than 100 years ago.

The Lady Lex