World War II/Aircraft carrier

This is a list of aircraft carriers of the Second World War. Aircraft carriers serve as a seagoing airbases, equipped with a flight deck and facilities

discusses aircraft carrier operations during World War II. Naval historians such as Evan Mawdsley, Richard Overy, and Craig Symonds concluded that World War II's

Independence-class aircraft carriers were a class of light carriers built for the United States Navy that served during World War II. Adapted from the

lead ship of her class of two aircraft carriers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) shortly before the Pacific War. Along with her sister ship Zuikaku

The Essex class is a retired class of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy. The 20th century's most numerous class of capital ship, the class consisted