Langley

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The first U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, Langley was converted from the collier USS Jupiter at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in 1922. In 1924, the warship joined the Pacific Battle Fleet where she was used for navy pilot training over the following 12 years. In 1937 Langley was converted again, this time in an aircraft transport. In 1942, Langley was attacked by Japanese aircraft while transporting 32 P-40E warplanes and took five bomb hits. She was intentionally sunk by U.S. Navy escort destroyers after her crew was evacuated.

The Langley Aircraft Carrier is a Tier 4 ship and marks the beginning of the U.S.A. aircraft carrier Tech Tree.
This ship leads to the Bogue-class Aircraft Carrier.

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Historical Info

USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) was the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, converted in 1920 from the collier USS Jupiter (AC-3), and also the U.S. Navy's first electrically propelled ship. Conversion of another collier was planned but canceled when the Washington Naval Treaty required the cancellation of the partially built battlecruisers Lexington and Saratoga, freeing up their hulls for conversion to the aircraft carriers CV-2 and CV-3. Langley was named after Samuel Pierpont Langley, an American aviation pioneer. Following another conversion, to a seaplane tender, Langley fought in World War II. On 27 February 1942, she was attacked by dive bombers of the Japanese 21st and 23rd Naval Air Flotillas and so badly damaged that she had to be scuttled by her escorts.

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