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• the Arado Ar 197 plane was designed by Germany before World War II for a never completed aircraft carrier?
• the Aichi D1A (pictured) was a carrier-borne dive bomber primarily used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second Sino-Japanese War?
• the Red Army prevented the incomplete Borodino class battlecruiser Izmail (pictured) from being converted to a carrier by gaining control of a commission appointed to review the needs of the Navy?
• the first two classes of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers were actually conversions of other ship types?
• the Fairey Barracuda was a British carrier-borne torpedo bomber used during World War II?
• the Short Sturgeon started life as a high-performance torpedo bomber, became a target tug, then a naval reconnaissance bomber, and finally an anti-submarine aircraft, before failing altogether?
• the first night-landing aboard an aircraft carrier was made by a Blackburn Dart on 6 May 1926 aboard the Courageous-class carrier HMS Furious?
• the British aircraft carrier HMS Furious left her berth next to the battleship Royal Oak in Scapa Flow the day before Royal Oak was sunk by the German submarine U-47?
• the Ryuho was the only major warship damaged in the Doolittle raid, and the last Japanese aircraft carrier to make a war-time voyage outside the Home Islands?
• the light cruiser Oyodo of the Imperial Japanese Navy was Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa's flagship after the aircraft carrier Zuikaku was sunk during WWII's Battle of Leyte Gulf?
• the L class destroyer HMS Legion rescued 1,560 crew members of the torpedoed aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal?
• SBD Dauntless dive bombers sank four Japanese aircraft carriers and a cruiser during the Battle of Midway?
• HMAS Sydney (pictured) was the first aircraft carrier owned by a British Commonwealth nation to serve in combat?
• Friedrich Guggenberger's U-81 sank the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (pictured) with a single torpedo?
• Zeke Zechella, who was instrumental in the building of the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, was unable to complete a single floating nuclear power plant during his nearly nine years as president of Offshore Power Systems?
• after being saved from the scrapyard by a U.S. delegation, two Japanese warships of the Amagi and Tosa classes, Akagi and Kaga, were converted to aircraft carriers and took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor?
• prior to the fall of Mazar-i-Sharif, all American military flights into Afghanistan had to be launched from Uzbekistan or aircraft carriers in the Arabian Sea?
• an aircraft which misses the arrestor cables on an aircraft carrier and needs to accelerate away is referred to as a bolter?
• although it was intended for operation from 1930s aircraft carriers, the SNCAO CAO.600 had twin engines?
• Imperial Japanese Navy submarine Commander Takakazu Kinashi was awarded the Iron Cross by Adolf Hitler for his role in the sinking of the American aircraft carrier Wasp?

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