Year: 2015 Language: english Author: Michael Green Genre: History Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 218 Description: To trace the history of United States navy aircraft carriers, it is essential to trace their history from the latter part of the First World War up until today. The American aircraft carrier grew up in uncertainty over its place in the fleet and uncertainty over the technology associated with this new type of ship and its fragile aircraft. As the technology matured and the US navy became more familiar and confident with carrier operations in the 1930s, the carrier took on an important role in the fleet. Nevertheless, this was a decidedly secondary role compared to the battleship, which was still seen as the ultimate arbiter of naval power. The opening of the Second World War quickly upset this calculation. At a time when the US navy was still trying to figure out how to operate multiple carriers in a single formation and whether this was even desirable under wartime conditions, the Imperial Japanese Navy had created a revolution in naval warfare by combining all its fleet carriers into a single formation. The striking power of this unit was unsurpassed, and when combined with excellent aircraft and highly-trained air-crew, the Japanese began a rampage through the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The carrier was suddenly cast as the centrepiece of the US navy – a situation that remains unaltered today. Going into the Pacific theatre of operations, the US navy’s carrier force certainly had its hands full as it learned how to fight a carrier war. Fortunately for the US navy, it had spent considerable time during the pre-war era in mastering the basics of carrier operations. Going into the war, it possessed a number of large carriers and almost all of these saw action against the Japanese. The Yorktown class was a truly excellent design which demonstrated the US navy’s emphasis on ships that could carry a large air group, thus giving the ship maximum offensive fighting power.
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Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy
Language: english
Author: Michael Green
Genre: History
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 218
Description: To trace the history of United States navy aircraft carriers, it is essential to trace their history from the latter part of the First World War up until today. The American aircraft carrier grew up in uncertainty over its place in the fleet and uncertainty over the technology associated with this new type of ship and its fragile aircraft. As the technology matured and the US navy became more familiar and confident with carrier operations in the 1930s, the carrier took on an important role in the fleet. Nevertheless, this was a decidedly secondary role compared to the battleship, which was still seen as the ultimate arbiter of naval power.
The opening of the Second World War quickly upset this calculation. At a time when the US navy was still trying to figure out how to operate multiple carriers in a single formation and whether this was even desirable under wartime conditions, the
Imperial Japanese Navy had created a revolution in naval warfare by combining all its fleet carriers into a single formation. The striking power of this unit was unsurpassed, and when combined with excellent aircraft and highly-trained air-crew, the Japanese
began a rampage through the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The carrier was suddenly cast as the centrepiece of the US navy – a situation that remains unaltered today. Going into the Pacific theatre of operations, the US navy’s carrier force certainly had
its hands full as it learned how to fight a carrier war. Fortunately for the US navy, it had spent considerable time during the pre-war
era in mastering the basics of carrier operations. Going into the war, it possessed a number of large carriers and almost all of these saw action against the Japanese. The Yorktown class was a truly excellent design which demonstrated the US navy’s
emphasis on ships that could carry a large air group, thus giving the ship maximum offensive fighting power.
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