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FYI tiny, slow escort carriers not full-sized modern aircraft carriers.

• mcpackieh 3y ago
  > not full-sized modern aircraft carriers. 17 "full-size modern" Essex class fleet carriers, assuming you mean 'modern' by contemporary standards.
• kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 3y ago
  Yes. It says "WWII" right there in the title. Modern aircraft carriers are..well, modern.
  • driscoll42 3y ago
    No, even in comparison to the times. The Casablanca-class escort carrier were 8,200 tons and could go 19 knots compared to the Essex-class carriers at 30,800 tons and 33 knots. the US made 122 of the slow, small carriers, only 24 of the bigger ones (with others in between, and then one bigger, i.e. Midway, which never saw service in the war)
    • ceejayoz 3y ago
      “Only 24” is a funny framing.
      • nemo 3y ago
        Relative to 151 it's "only 24", OP is really not diminishing the significance of that accomplishment, but defining it more clearly.
• Gibbon1 3y ago
  And massed escort carriers was something that would spoil your day.