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Originally Posted by thyro
Aircraft carriers were used on WW2 against Germany?? If I'm not wrong they were mainly used on Pacific war.
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It was Swordfish torpedo planes from HMS
Ark Royal that brought
Bismarck to heel and let the British battleships do their thing.
The longest hit recorded by naval gunfire was over 26,000 yards, made by KMS
Scharnhorst against the aircraft carrier HMS
Glorious.
While British captain Frederick John Walker created the hunter/killer group, once the United States got into the game these groups always had an 'escort carrier' with them.
The destroyer I served on, USS
Brinkley Bass, was named for Harry Brinkley Bass, a navy F6F Hellcat pilot who was shot down by AA fire over southern France while flying off USS
Kasaan Bay in 1944. Lots of carriers in the Atlantic and Med.