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Why Didn’t Italy Have an Aircraft Carrier During World War II?
Had the Aquila been completed, it could have bolstered Italy’s Mediterranean operations by providing fleet air defense and ...
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How Aircraft Went To Sea - From Biplane Barges to Aircraft Carriers
Today we are joined by Drachinifel, who is helping us navigate the muddy waters of aircraft carrier development: beginning ...
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5 Of The Worst Aircraft Carriers Of All Time
Aircraft carriers are the premiere warships used by blue water navies around the world, and it's been that way since World War II. After the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor on ...
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Mysterious vehicle found in sunken WWII aircraft carrier
A US aircraft carrier from World War II, which sunk to the bottom of the Pacific over 80 years ago, is now at the center of an automotive mystery. An expedition to the famous shipwreck 1,000 ...
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On a sunken WWII aircraft carrier, experts find a mural, wrecked planes and a station wagon
Three miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, an underwater robot descended through an opening in the deck of the sunken aircraft carrier ... s sinking in World War II that anyone had ...
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Why was a car inside a sunk World War II aircraft carrier? NOAA researchers perplexed
It seems fighter planes and bombers weren't the only vehicles aboard a famous U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that was sunk during World War II. A crew exploring the USS Yorktown at the bottom of the ...