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Some carrier aircraft served in dual roles, such as fighter-bomber and bomber-reconnaissance aircraft. Carrier aircraft functions. Torpedo and dive bombers attacked enemy warships, transports, merchant ships, and land installations. Fighters accompanied bombers on attack missions, protecting them during interceptions by enemy fighters.
The first true aircraft carrier was HMS Argus, [2] [4] launched in late 1917 with a complement of 20 aircraft and a flight deck 550 ft (170 m) long and 68 ft (21 m) wide. [4] The last aircraft carrier sunk in wartime was the Japanese aircraft carrier Amagi , in Kure Harbour in July 1945.
Auto-Union delivered two prototypes during 1944–45. The hull's shape was similar to the hull of the Panzerkampfwagen Tiger II, but much smaller.The vehicle had front wheel drive with five or six overlapping steel road wheels, possibly resembling the never-built E-25 "replacement tank"'s suspension system in appearance.
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Entering service in 1942, the USS Fletcher provided exceptional service to the U.S. Navy during WWII. It was used in the Guadalcanal Campaign and stationed near New Caledonia. The ship was an ...
This List of carrier-based aircraft covers fixed-wing aircraft designed for aircraft carrier flight deck operation and excludes aircraft intended for use from seaplane tenders, submarines and dirigibles. Helicopters includes only those regularly operated from aircraft carriers and not those normally flown from other types of surface ships or ...
Pages in category "Aircraft carriers of Germany" ... German aircraft carrier I (1915) This page was last edited on 15 March 2013, at 00:06 (UTC). Text ...
This is a list of German-made and German-used land vehicles sorted by type, covering both former and current vehicles, from their inception from the German Empire, through the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany, to the split between West Germany and East Germany, through their reunification and into modern-day Germany.