Aircraft carriers are the premiere warships used by blue water navies around the world, and it's been that way since World War II. After the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor on ...
What You Need to Know: The top five WWII aircraft carriers—chosen for their ... represented the fierce capability of the ...
What You Need to Know: Henry Kaiser’s mass-produced Casablanca-class “jeep carriers” became a crucial U.S. Navy asset during WWII. Though smaller and slower than fleet carriers, these escort ...
Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...
On a cloudless day off the Philippines coast, Shigetoshi Kaneko held onto floating debris while adrift, clinging to hope after esc ...
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Here’s What You Need to Remember: Hōshō’s basic design would be used for other Japanese carriers including the Akagi, Kaga, and Ryūjō, but unlike those ships, which were all sunk during ...