The names of these ships might have been USS Lexington and USS Saratoga. The United States Navy began to think about battlecruiser construction even before HMS Dreadnought and HMS Invincible ...

The USS Lexington ... as a battlecruiser, it was later reclassified and became one of the largest and fastest ships of its time. In May 1942, during the Battle of the Coral Sea, Lexington and ...