Saratoga was not preserved after her long wartime career and instead became a target in Operation Crossroads. She had been conceived as a battlecruiser when heavy guns dominated naval thought, then served as an aircraft carrier before an atomic-weapons test destroyed her. Her career spans the rise of carrier aviation and the arrival of nuclear warfare. Those changes occurred within the lifetime of a single ship.
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Saratoga's Operation Crossroads ending
Operation Crossroads ended a career that began with battlecruiser design and passed through the rise of carrier aviation.