US EditionCasablanca-Class: The U.S. Navy Built 50 ‘Baby Aircraft Carriers’ in Just a Year
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Casablanca-Class: The U.S. Navy Built 50 ‘Baby Aircraft Carriers’ in Just a Year
Key Points and Summary – The Casablanca-class escort carriers were America’s secret weapon in WWII, a fleet of 50 “jeep carriers” mass-produced with incredible speed on merchant ship hulls. Born out of a desperate need for more carriers, these smaller, lightly-armored ships were not designed to fight battleships. Yet, in the legendary Battle off Samar, a task force of these “tin can” carriers, known as Taffy 3, fought a powerful Japanese fleet t…
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