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Parent topics
- Aircraft carrier [r]: A warship designed to launch and recover combat aircraft and aircraft that support military operations [e]
Subtopics
- Battle of the Coral Sea [r]: Fought in May 1942, the first battle between naval forces built around aircraft carriers, in which the opposing United States and Japanese ships never saw one another; it was a tactical Japanese defeat and strategic U.S. victory [e]
- Battle of Midway [r]: Generally considered to be the turning point of the Pacific Theater in the Second World War, a Japanese force intending to capture Midway Island was turned back with the loss of four aircraft carriers, at the cost of one U.S. carrier; it was the last major Japanese offensive of the war [e]
- USS Yorktown (disambiguation) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Yorktown-class aircraft carrier [r]: World War II three-ship class of aircraft carriers, purpose-built under treaty restrictions and generally too small for major fleet use [e]
- Commissioned Officer [r]: Add brief definition or description