Essex class were not quite 37K tons. Tiny little sidebar:
Naval Heritage | Jonathan Parshall: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
June 24, 2014 | U.S. Naval War College
Posted on 05/03/2022 9:05:32 AM PDT by Retain Mike
“We refer to the ship as ‘assault carrier 7.’ And assault is traditional for an LHD, LHA,” Capt. Joel Lang, the ship’s commander, said during an April 3 media event aboard Tripoli. “We have the space for a battalion landing team, we have about 1,000 infantrymen. And typically the air combat element is a blend of rotary and tilt-rotor in order to enable that assault force to go ashore. What we’re doing right now is lightning carrier, and we are proving the operational concept. … We are proving the tactics and the techniques and the procedures to employ the lightning carrier concept.”
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Are those planes somehow anchored to the deck?
On a related subject, I was Officer of the Deck on an LST when we served with an Amphibious Ready Group in the Tonkin Gulf. We usually steamed at double standard distance or 2,000 yards apart. For a photo we moved to 1,000 or standard distance. I remember how much larger the Iwo Jima looked as I came up to take the watch.
Are those planes somehow anchored to the deck?
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Special US Navy issued Super Glue!
Have you read ANY US history?
Do you understand how these ships such as these are named?
Gorilla Glue is PO’d.
What other ships are there named after an enemy nation (or enemy city-state)?
Gorilla Glue is PO’d.
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Tell them to bid higher next time or hire an Admiral.
“Not fleet carriers. You might be referring to escort carriers. It is roughly the same length as an Essex Carrier.”
Escort carriers were built on a commercial ship hull, so they were relatively cheap to build, and could go on line quickly. There were more escort carriers built during WWII than capital fleet carriers. The Brits called them “Woolworth” carriers.
I’ve read some books that mentioned the escort carriers; one of the best books was “The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors,” which was about the Battle of Samar. While principally about the destroyers in that battle, it did address the escort carriers. Great book, by the way, if you haven’t already read it.
We also had some light carriers that were smaller than the capital fleet carriers, and carried about the same number of aircraft as the escort carriers.
Essex class were not quite 37K tons. Tiny little sidebar:
Naval Heritage | Jonathan Parshall: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
June 24, 2014 | U.S. Naval War College
Now, we may or may not have the best systems in the world, and we don't have the best people operating them, we have the "right" people operating them.
And those two are not the same thing.
Thanks for your reply!
My bad eyes see at least a six point tie-down...standard for ocean operations...:)
Many a time I carried three tie down chains over one shoulder, and three over the other! More fun than the six over one shoulder and six over the other!
We do have the USS Belleau Wood, which was enemy held at the time, or the USS Saipan, which was real enemy territory, part of the nation of Japan even before the war, as was the USS Iwo Jima.
Thanks for pointing those out. I had no idea we had ships named like that.
LOL, I get that, we don’t think of them that way. And of course, the USS Okinawa was another one.
It’s the rule of kicking ass and taking names.
I can’t see anything, even with my reading/ computer specs on. You’ve got *good* eyes.
Ya may be over-thinking it a tad. Tripoli was also a battle - and the naming is a memorium to a famous battle. Similar names would include Guadalcanal and Meuse-Argonne.
Yes, but slightly different for the military
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