Aircraft carrier

From Turtledove

Aircraft carriers are warships with long flight decks. They allow the Navy to have air support when out of range of land installations.

[edit] Aircraft carrier in Days of Infamy

The aircraft carrier was critical to Japan and the United States respective efforts to take and control Hawaii.

[edit] Aircraft carrier in Southern Victory

The first aircraft carrier was commissioned USS Remembrance by the U.S. Navy in 1917. It was a flight deck placed atop the incomplete hull of what was originally meant to be a battleship. Later carriers were built from scratch by the US Navy as well as by the British, Germany, and Japanese fleets.

In December 1941, the Japanese sunk the Remembrance, the only American carrier in the Pacific at the beginning of the Second Great War. To defend the Sandwich Islands, the US Navy commissioned converted freighters as "escort carriers." These were far inferior to proper carriers.

[edit] Aircraft carrier in Worldwar

While the aircraft carrier played no significant role in the war against the Race, Atvar and his generals were surprised by the concept of making boats big enough to put fighter craft on them. During a meeting in the early days of the invasion, Atvar received reports on fighter planes that appeared out of nowhere and raided bases on the Chinese coast.