US Light Carriers in action (Repost)

US naval aviation began on 10 November 1910, with the launch of an aircraft flown by Eugene Ely from a temporary flight deck constructed on the light cruiser BIRMINGHAM (CI.-2). Ely's flight was followed by a launch from a similar jury-rigged deck on the armored cruiser PENNSYLVANIA (ACR-4) on 18 January 1911. The Navy experimented with float­planes during World War One. but by the end of the war it had become clear that the future of naval aviation as an offensive weapon required ships that could launch and land combat air­craft while at sea. The US Navy's first step in this direction was to obtain authori/ation lo con­vert a collier - the ex-USS JUPITER (AC-3) - into its first aircraft carrier, the OSS LANG-LEY (CV-1) in 1920. By the time the LANGLEY was ready for operation in 1922. the Navy had acquired two more vessels for conversion into carriers, the incomplete battlecruisers LEX­INGTON and SARATOGA. The giant battlecruiser hulls were available due to the 1921 Washington Conference's stringent limitations on capital ship construction. These required all battlecruisers and battleships then under construction to be scrapped, with the exception of two per nation, which could be converted into aircraft carriers.

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