USS United States: The Aircraft Carrier Custom Designed To Launch Bombers

USS United States: The Aircraft Carrier Custom Designed To Launch Bombers

Key Points and Summary – USS United States (CVA-58) was conceived just after World War II to launch very large, nuclear-armed bombers—an answer to the atomic age at sea. The design was radical: a flush deck without a fixed island, massive steam catapults, and deck-edge elevators to handle 100,000-pound aircraft. -To the newly independent Air Force, that mission trespassed on its strategic bombing turf. -Five days after the keel was laid in April…