US Fleet Carriers from Langley to Ford Class

bd popeye

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Coral Sea was decommissioned on 26 April 1990 before Desert Storm started.

Midway and Coral Sea both had Tomcats aboard for short periods of time. Either cross-decking or carrier quals.


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VF-213 Fighting Black Lion traps aboard Midway 1982 - Courtesy of Jim Danko

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Tomcat-Launch-1982 - photo by PH3 Rick Caines courtesy of Scott McGaugh
 

Jeff Head

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Coral Sea was decommissioned on 26 April 1990 before Desert Storm started.
Yes, that's why I said,

"The Midway and the Coral Sea served into the modern era, the 1990s."


"The Midway was not decommissioned until after the 1st Gulf War and she and her air wing saw action in Desert Storm."

Coral Sea did serve into the 1990s...just, but was decommissioned before Desert Storm..

Midway however served through Desert Storm, just as you say.
 
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bd popeye

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Beautiful ! I have wrong but glad to learn this :)

What cat size for Midway, 75 m ?
ALL present USN CV/CVNs have the same type of catapult ..a C13.....with some modifications.
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This old chart shows what cats were installed.
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Note Forrestal class have a C7 & C11 catapults. I do not know why Forrestal was omitted.
 

FORBIN

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Hey..I've been to Cannes twice in 1972 & '73. I was aboard USS John F Kennedy (CVA 67).

In 1973 I went to the Gran Pix of Monaco. Jackie Stewart, the English gentleman, won the race. It was very warm that day.

As for as CV permanently assigned to the Sixth Fleet. There was a plan to homeport USS Independence (CVA 62) in Piraeus/Athens but those plans never came to fruition.

Midway arrive in Yokosuka 5 October 1973..long before many members of this forum were born. I, Big Daddy Popeye was there!

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USS Midway...Part II

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CAW in october 1973
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asif iqbal

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Imperial Japanese Navy also sunk the HMS Hermes in 1942

The crack Japanese fighter aces were second to none they would have caused much damage in 1943 had they not been lost in battle of mid way
 

Jeff Head

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Yes, the Japanese sunk a total of five fleet carriers, one light carrier, and five escort carriers in World War II. Some by submarines, one by gunfire, and the rest by aerial attack. It was an all out naval war at sea in World War II in the Pacific. One of those fleet carriers was the Royal Navy Hermes as you say, the rest were all US carriers.

In addition, the Germans sank four Royal Navy Fleet carriers, three Royal Navy Escort carriers, and one US Escort carrier in World War II. Except for one, all of the German losses were due to German U-boats. The one exception was the Fleet Carrier Glorious, sunk by gunfire from German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.

All in all, the allies lost nineteen carriers in World War II. Nine fleet carriers, one light carrier, and nine escort carriers. The Japanese sunk a total of eleven and the Germans sunk a total of eight.

In return, the Japanese lost a total of ten fleet carriers, six light carriers, and four escort carriers in the war. A total of twenty carries in all.

Hard to imagine the level of naval combat and losses over a five year period. Thirty nine aircraft carriers sunk in total for the US, the UK, and Japan. Now there were three other carriers (two Italian and one German) that were also lost...but they were never completed and never saw action before being destroyed.
 
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