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Aircraft Carriers
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:17:10
Publish Date: 2007-12-08 17:22:00
Description: Aircraft Carriers are the ultimate tool of modern power projection.  They are symbols of both naval strength and air superiority.  This episode covers their history and their future:
  • 1840s: Balloon Carriers are invented
  • 1900s: Seaplane Carriers are invented
  • 1910s: Modern aircraft carriers are invented
  • 1930s-1940s: WWII (five major carrier battles)
    • Pearl Harbor: Japan's six carriers surprise the United States Navy
    • Coral Sea: Japan's three carriers engage America's two carriers (both lose one carrier)
    • Midway: America's three carriers engage Japan's four carriers and sink all four, with the help of codebreakers and reconnaissance.  Considered a turning point in the Pacific War
    • Philippine Sea: America's sixteen carriers destroy or disable all but 35 of the 500 Japanese carrier-based aircraft
    • Leyte Gulf: America's seventeen carriers decisively defeat the Imperial Japanese Navy in the largest naval battle in history
  • WWII-present: US Carrier Strike Groups control the seas
For more information, read: http://www.sandcastlevi.com/sea/carriers/cvchap1a.htm http://www.navy.mil/navydata/ships/carriers/cv-list.asp http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/carriers.htm http://science.howstuffworks.com/aircraft-carrier.htm http://www.combatreform2.com/submarineaircraftcarriers.htm The Pacific War Companion by Daniel Marston Jane’s Warship Recognition Guide Imperial Japanese Navy Aircraft Carriers (1921-1945) by Mark Stille US Navy Bluejacket’s Manual Military History Podcast is sponsored by Armchair General Magazine
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