Ironically, the concept originated with a submariner, Captain Francis Low. While touring Virginia bases in January 1942, he saw a ship’s outline on a bombing range and conceived the notion of launching Army bombers from an aircraft carrier. He sold the concept to Admiral Ernest King, chief o...
During the entire war, battleship guns sank only a single fleet carrier and a single battleship. In comparison, carrier-launched aircraft damaged, sank, or took part in sinking 19 battleships, including eight at Pearl Harbor. Along with Pearl Harbor, the earlier use of carrier-launched ...
Here the carrier Akagi sports a triple deck arrangement, which was soon done away with. (wikimedia) The airplane industry grew slowly, first as a series of small shops producing a modest number of mostly foreign planes, but growing into larger enterprises. The largest of these manufacturers w...
Aircraft: Mitsubishi A6M2 type 21 Zero-sen (Allied code name 'Zeke'), aircraft "DII-105" of No. 6 Koku Sentai, Imperial Japanese Navy, aircraft carrier Junyo ('[Peregrine] Falcon'), attack on Dutch Harbor, Unalaska Island, June 3-4, 1942....
Smeaton Sochaczewski Carrier United Kingdom/Republic of Poland (1944-1945) Armored Carrier – Design Only Poland had been crushed in WW2. Hitler had invaded Poland from the west on 1st September 1939, followed by a Soviet invasion from the east 16 days later. Despite dogged resistance, it ...
German Reich (1939) Half-track Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Gun – 750 Built The most famous German self-propelled anti-aircraft guns (SPAAG) are the Panzer IV based Wirbelwind, Ostwind, Mobelwagen and even Kugelblitz. However, despite being overshadowed by their tank-based counterparts, it ...
The Weapon Carrier and the Ambulance were the models produced in the largest numbers, because of the Army’s requirements. Since they were in fact the only trucks in their class in production at the start of WW2, they were to provide outstanding service in the early war years (Weapon ...
Japanese A4N biplanes from carrier Ryujo attacked a group of Chinese Hawk III biplanes over Baoshan District of Shanghai, China; Masaichi Kondo claimed two victory, while other pilots in his air group claimed an additional eight. On the Chinese side, Liu Cuigang claimed one victory at 0730 ...
The carrier airmen brought enormous power to Okinawa, with more than one thousand planes in Mitscher’s force, plus two hundred more in four British ships. As before, the fast carriers operated round the clock. Enterprise remained the sole night owl at the time among fourteen other U.S. ...
With the call, “Pilots, man your planes,” Harry will join the carrier strikes that aimed to turn the tide of the Pacific War. STRIKE tells a powerful and exciting story about this pivotal battle—examining courage in the face of impossible odds, the demands of honor, and whether one man...