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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1910 The US military took its first step toward linking flight and naval operations when Eugene Ely made the first carrier takeoff, guiding a Pusher biplane off the deck of the light cruiser USS Birmingham in the waters of Norfolk, Virginia.

A mere 31 years and 8 mos. later, the concept would be put to the climatic test as Japan and the United States put 'paid' to traditional battleship warfare at the 4 on 3 carrier encounter at Midway 1942 to decide the fate of empire. Japan never recovered from the clash; spending the next 3 years stubbornly 'bushidoing' their way to the rising sun(s) ....over Hiroshima and Nagasaki... The concept is not lost on China or Iran which have built dummy target carriers to practise missile & hypersonic strikes on American carriers; ie: still the dominant surface force on planet spinning mudball.