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2 × Aircraft elevators. Shōhō ( Japanese: 祥鳳, "Auspicious Phoenix " or "Happy Phoenix") was a light aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Originally built as the submarine support ship Tsurugizaki ( Japanese: 剣埼, "Sword Cape") in the late 1930s, she was converted before the Pacific War into an aircraft carrier and renamed.
Aircraft carried. Grumman F6F Hellcat, TBF Avenger. USS Cowpens (CV-25/CVL-25/AVT-1), nicknamed The Mighty Moo, was an 11,000-ton Independence -class light aircraft carrier that served the United States Navy from 1943 to 1947. [ 1] Cowpens, named for the Battle of Cowpens of the Revolutionary War, was launched on 17 January 1943 at the New York ...
Zuikaku. Zuikaku ( Japanese: 瑞鶴, meaning "Auspicious Crane") was the second and last Shōkaku -class aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) shortly before the beginning of the Pacific War. Zuikaku was one of the most capable Japanese aircraft carriers of the entire war. Her aircraft took part in the attack on Pearl ...
America's manufacturers in World War II were engaged in the greatest military industrial effort in history. Aircraft companies went from building a handful of planes at a time to building them by the thousands on assembly lines. Aircraft manufacturing went from a distant 41st place among American industries to first place in less than five ...
Aircraft carrier design involved trade-offs between offensive striking power and defensive survivability. The more carrier tonnage allocated to guns and armor for protection, the less was available for carrying and launching aircraft, the warship's principal weapon. Combatant nations of World War II placed varying emphasis on these factors ...
Escort carrier HMS Audacity. The escort carrier or escort aircraft carrier (U.S. hull classification symbol CVE), also called a "jeep carrier" or "baby flattop" in the United States Navy (USN) or "Woolworth Carrier" by the Royal Navy, was a small and slower type of aircraft carrier used by the Royal Navy, the Royal Canadian Navy, the United States Navy, the Imperial Japanese Navy and Imperial ...
Donald M. Nelson, 1942–1944. Julius A. Krug, 1944–1945. The War Production Board ( WPB) was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established it in January 1942, with Executive Order 9024. [ 1] The WPB replaced the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board ...
During World War II, aviation firmly established itself as a critical component of modern warfare from the Battle of Britain in the early stages to the great aircraft carrier battles between American and Japanese Pacific fleets and the final delivery of nuclear weapons. The major belligerents, Germany and Japan on the one side and Britain, the ...