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How the Casablancas-class Aircraft Carriers Shook Up World War II
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Admiral Daniel V. Gallery, a pioneer in carrier based ASW operations, wrote a couple of excellent books on their role in the Battle of the Atlantic, "U-505," "Clear the Decks," and "Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea." They do overlap some, but both are worth reading if you're a history buff. He also wrote a series of "novels" around a character (BMC) known as "Fatso." Funny as heck if you can find them.
Hornfisher's "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" os a great account of the Battle of Samar.
Hornfisher's "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" os a great account of the Battle of Samar.
How the Casablancas-class Aircraft Carriers Shook Up World War II
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BIGGEST NAVAL BATTLE OF WWII (Part 2): The Battle of Leyte Gulf | Battle 360 | History
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The Battle of Leyte Gulf was fought from October 23-26 1944 and was the largest naval battle of World War II. It may well be regarded as the largest naval battle in military history.
The battle was fought between the American forces and the Imperial Japanese Navy and took place close to the Philippines Islands of Leyte, Luzon and Samar, in the waters of the Leyte Gulf.
U.S. Troops invaded the island of Leyte on October 20th, 1944 as part of the “Island Hopping” strategy, to get close enough to Japan to launch an invasion and at the same time isolate & bypass heavily fortified Japanese positions.
After news of the invasion had reached Japan, the Imperial Japanese Navy was ordered to mobilize nearly all remaining naval ships and defeat the U.S 3rd and 7th Fleets in a climatic showdown and turn the tide of the war in their favor.
The Japanese did not succeed in achieving this far fetching objective and suffered very heavy losses. So much so that this battle marked the end of any major Japanese fleet operations, due to lack of fuel the heavy ships were forced to stay at their bases for the rest of the war.
The Battle of Leyte Gulf was fought from October 23-26 1944 and was the largest naval battle of World War II. It may well be regarded as the largest naval battle in military history.
The battle was fought between the American forces and the Imperial Japanese Navy and took place close to the Philippines Islands of Leyte, Luzon and Samar, in the waters of the Leyte Gulf.
U.S. Troops invaded the island of Leyte on October 20th, 1944 as part of the “Island Hopping” strategy, to get close enough to Japan to launch an invasion and at the same time isolate & bypass heavily fortified Japanese positions.
After news of the invasion had reached Japan, the Imperial Japanese Navy was ordered to mobilize nearly all remaining naval ships and defeat the U.S 3rd and 7th Fleets in a climatic showdown and turn the tide of the war in their favor.
The Japanese did not succeed in achieving this far fetching objective and suffered very heavy losses. So much so that this battle marked the end of any major Japanese fleet operations, due to lack of fuel the heavy ships were forced to stay at their bases for the rest of the war.
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by Sebastien Roblin
Here's What You Need to Remember: The Casablanca class’ finest hour came in the Battle of Samar, when sixteen CVEs and their escorts covering the amphibious landing at Leyte Gulf single-handedly took on a Japanese battlefleet consisting of four battleships and nineteen cruisers and destroyers. In a frantic few hours, the carriers’ combined air wings and self-sacrificing destroyer escorts managed to sink three cruisers and persuade Admiral Takeo Kurita to withdraw.
“Mass-production” isn’t a term one usually associates with ships as large and valuable as aircraft carriers. But that’s precisely what industrialist Henry Kaiser proposed to the U.S. Navy in 1942: dozens of carriers churned out in a matter of months using assembly-line techniques.
Following the Pearl Harbor raid, it was evident that carriers would rule the seas—but forthcoming Essex-class fleet carriers were years away from entering service. Kaiser was already assembling large “Liberty Ship” transports in just six weeks on average, and he promised to launch small escort carriers in just three months using interchangeable-part production techniques.
But the Navy initially spurned Kaiser’s offer. The “jeep carriers” would have only two-thirds the 30-knot maximum speed of fleet carriers, and carry roughly one-third the number of aircraft. But Kaiser reached over the heads of the Navy to President Franklin Roosevelt, who may have been more attuned to the political sensitivities of the war.
German submarines were then inflicting unsustainable losses on vital transatlantic convoys—particularly while traversing the “mid-Atlantic gap” which lay just outside the patrol radius of patrol planes based in North America and the United Kingdom. Land-based bombers like the Fw 200 Condor also exacted a toll.
An obvious solution was to have carriers escort convoys, providing round-the-clock anti-submarine and air defense patrols. But large, fast fleet carriers were too valuable to devote full-time to such missions.
by Sebastien Roblin
Here's What You Need to Remember: The Casablanca class’ finest hour came in the Battle of Samar, when sixteen CVEs and their escorts covering the amphibious landing at Leyte Gulf single-handedly took on a Japanese battlefleet consisting of four battleships and nineteen cruisers and destroyers. In a frantic few hours, the carriers’ combined air wings and self-sacrificing destroyer escorts managed to sink three cruisers and persuade Admiral Takeo Kurita to withdraw.
“Mass-production” isn’t a term one usually associates with ships as large and valuable as aircraft carriers. But that’s precisely what industrialist Henry Kaiser proposed to the U.S. Navy in 1942: dozens of carriers churned out in a matter of months using assembly-line techniques.
Following the Pearl Harbor raid, it was evident that carriers would rule the seas—but forthcoming Essex-class fleet carriers were years away from entering service. Kaiser was already assembling large “Liberty Ship” transports in just six weeks on average, and he promised to launch small escort carriers in just three months using interchangeable-part production techniques.
But the Navy initially spurned Kaiser’s offer. The “jeep carriers” would have only two-thirds the 30-knot maximum speed of fleet carriers, and carry roughly one-third the number of aircraft. But Kaiser reached over the heads of the Navy to President Franklin Roosevelt, who may have been more attuned to the political sensitivities of the war.
German submarines were then inflicting unsustainable losses on vital transatlantic convoys—particularly while traversing the “mid-Atlantic gap” which lay just outside the patrol radius of patrol planes based in North America and the United Kingdom. Land-based bombers like the Fw 200 Condor also exacted a toll.
An obvious solution was to have carriers escort convoys, providing round-the-clock anti-submarine and air defense patrols. But large, fast fleet carriers were too valuable to devote full-time to such missions.
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