How the US Navy Built 100 Aircraft Carriers In Just 3 Years

The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 thrust the US into WWII with a weakened Pacific fleet, leaving only the USS Enterprise as a major carrier to face Imperial Japan's superior air and naval power. However, galvanised American industrial power rapidly produced new, more...

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