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http://This Is The Only Photo Of A U.S. Navy Supercarrier Being Sunk - The Drive
The undeniable symbol of American might is and always will be the fleet of aircraft carriers America totes over all others. Aircraft carriers have evolved from coal-powered colliers converted into carriers and launching radial-engine propeller aircraft using experimental rockets and gunpowder to steam catapults launching Skyraiders, Crusaders, Skyhawks, and Phantoms in Vietnam. During World War Two, 12 American carriers were sunk, and many men lost their lives to subs, kamikaze attacks, and torpedoes. From 1945, when the Bismarck Sea was sunk off of Iowa Jima, the only carrier to be sunk in modern times is the USS America, purposely attacked and blasted for research purposes to ensure American men and women had a fighting chance. You can read the fate of the America in this article.
The undeniable symbol of American might is and always will be the fleet of aircraft carriers America totes over all others. Aircraft carriers have evolved from coal-powered colliers converted into carriers and launching radial-engine propeller aircraft using experimental rockets and gunpowder to steam catapults launching Skyraiders, Crusaders, Skyhawks, and Phantoms in Vietnam. During World War Two, 12 American carriers were sunk, and many men lost their lives to subs, kamikaze attacks, and torpedoes. From 1945, when the Bismarck Sea was sunk off of Iowa Jima, the only carrier to be sunk in modern times is the USS America, purposely attacked and blasted for research purposes to ensure American men and women had a fighting chance. You can read the fate of the America in this article.
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Once the utility of aircraft carriers were realized, the Americans built dozens of more of them. A feat no nation was able to match.
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The only other country who had many carriers was World War Two japan, all resting at the bottom of the sea.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
PFC (Join to see) - Sinking their carriers ushered in a new era for WWII in the Pacific. Germany had Russia. The Japanese had the Pacific to contend with.
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MAJ Ken Landgren - without sinking the Japanese carriers, they would have been able to launch aircraft closer to parts of the American fleet and the USS Indianapolis might have been caught and sunken much faster, changing the course of history and dragging the war into perhaps a new year and allowing the F8F Bearcat to get a taste of combat of its time.
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