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The US carrier that survived hell after striking Japan itself
USS Franklin pushed closer to the Japanese mainland than almost any American carrier before her. During operations near Japan, a single enemy bomber dropped armor piercing bombs that ignited fueled ...
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Meet the Midway-Class: The U.S. Navy ‘Battle Aircraft Carrier’ with an Armored Flight Deck
-Though they missed that conflict, these massive carriers—the USS Midway, USS Coral Sea, and USS Franklin D. Roosevelt—served for nearly 50 years, their robust decks enabling the transition from ...
Aircraft carriers have been central to the U.S. Navy, and over the years they have only increased in importance since their introduction in World War 2 The Yorktown, Essex, and Midway classes would ...
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