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The List of ships of World War II contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner ...
This article is part of a series that covers World War II from the vantage point of aircraft carrier operations and is focused upon the types and names of the carriers themselves. It contains complete lists of aircraft carriers that operated at some point during the period from 1937 to 1945.
All of the ships featured in this section served in World War Two, starting with CV-1, a ship originally commissioned as a collier in 1913. America’s first aircraft carrier started life in 1913 as USS Jupiter (AC-3) a 540 ft. collier supplying coal to coal-fired naval ships.
Aircraft carriers played a major role in winning decisive naval battles, [8] supporting key amphibious landings, and keeping critical merchant shipping lanes open for transporting military personnel and their equipment to land battle zones.
A complete list of all US Navy Aircraft Carriers, by type and class, in commission during WWII. Links to individual pages giving description, history, and photo.
An aircraft carrier is a ship whose primary purpose is to bring airplanes closer to distant battle areas. Since most World War II aircraft had a range of just a few hundred miles, it was necessary to bring the aircraft to the battlefront, and using a ship to do so made a lot of sense in the Pacific where much of the fighting took place on ...
Overview of Operations Involving Aircraft Carriers. Britain entered the war in 1939 with a total of seven fleet and light aircraft carriers, all but one of which was in the Atlantic Theater. Three of these carriers were sunk before the US entered the war.