5 More Facts You May Have Not Known About US WWII Aircraft Carriers

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Here's 5 more facts you may have not known about US WWII Aircraft Carriers!
Timestamps:
00:12 - USS Robin - The Borrowed Fleet Carrier
04:24 - When A US Aircraft Carrier Assisted in Capturing A Warship
06:04 - The US Navy's Freshwater Aircraft Carriers
09:28 - Sangamon-Class Escort Aircraft Carriers - The Navy's Best Escort Carrier Conversion
13:18 - Saipan-Class Light Aircraft Carrier - The Last US Light Aircraft Carriers
Sources to confirm information on some topics:
USS Robin
www.history.navy.mil/browse-b...
armchairgeneral.com/uss-robin-...
U-505 Capture
www.history.navy.mil/browse-b...
uboat.net/allies/ships/cve_de...
Saipan-class
www.hazegray.org/navhist/carr...
Paddle Wheel Aircraft Carriers
www.defensemedianetwork.com/s...

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@richardb4313 8 месяцев назад

The low number of views for this video is puzzling.

@svgproductions72 8 месяцев назад

Agreed ! Not sure why it didn’t pick up like the other videos I made similar to this. I appreciate you watching and commenting!

@CivilWarDigitalDigest 8 месяцев назад

Agreed!

@edwardweeden8837 5 месяцев назад

Those of us who have LIVED on Flattops truly appreciate YOUR efforts and the efforts of ROBIN!

@grahamkearnon6682 5 месяцев назад

I as a Brit veteran of Falklands War flagship HMS Hermes I would like to congratulate you on an interesting video, the low viewer count might be about the US mostly content, I don't know as this is the first view for me.

@kevinmalloy2180 11 месяцев назад

A visit to the U-505 at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry is well worth the time! The display is excellent and the museum generally is very interesting. And there’s a book about the Lake Michigan carriers (and salvaging the planes lost during training in the water) which looks good: “The Great Navy Birds of Lake Michigan.”

@svgproductions72 11 месяцев назад

I’ve wanted to go to that museum! And the paddle wheel carriers are fascinating, I know a lot of the salvaged planes make it to museums too

@peterbrazier7107 5 месяцев назад

The taskforce commander was told not to capture U 505, he didn't know why and towed it back. The reason was because the code breakers at Bletchley Park were already breaking the German codes and if they found out about U505 they would change their codes, Luckly they didn't find out because the crew were isolated from the rest of the POWs.

@mbryson2899 6 месяцев назад

I've toured the _U-505_ about a half dozen times since I was a kid. That tour and the attendant exhibits sparked my interest in that era of history.

@petestorz172 4 месяца назад

USS Wolverine and USS Sable were similar in size and performance to escort carriers, so pilots were trained to operate off small and slow carriers.

@RichadTheLionHeat 4 месяца назад

Absolutely outstanding detail informative video. Sharing with many others. Greatly appreciate your time, dedication, hard work and passion in providing this wonderful work to the public. 👍🏻😉🙏🏻✝️🇺🇸

@petestorz172 6 месяцев назад

Replacing the biplane Albacores with Avengers must have been almost a culture change. ~50% greater cruising speed and weight for starters. HMS Victorious filled a gap between USS Enterprise getting fully repaired and the arrival of the first Essex and Independence class carriers and light carriers. In 1944, USS Saratoga served with the Royal Navy for a time, in the Indian Ocean. Saratoga was not as maneuverable as the Yorktowns and Essexes and did less well in dodging torpedoes. The Indian Ocean was a less risky environment, and at the same time she aided operations in the India-Burma theater.

@trevorwilliams6815 5 месяцев назад

Enjoyed this one. Pleased to see the Wolverine and Sable getting a mention. 👍

@philipvandyke5980 5 месяцев назад

Truly amazing the amount of carriers built during the war

@jamesrussell7760 5 месяцев назад

I call your attention to the Quonset Point NAS in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. The pier at Quonset Point was large enough for a single Essex class aircraft carrier and the adjoining runways saw a lot of activity (mostly training) for twin-engine anti-submarine aircraft.

@Maven1999 8 месяцев назад

Great video, nice gem of a channel that randomly popped up!

@svgproductions72 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for the comment! Be sure to check out my other videos if you haven’t already

@hazchemel 5 месяцев назад

First sight of this channel, and really enjoyed the anthology style, and relaxed tone of narration, thank you.

@svgproductions72 5 месяцев назад

Thank you! Be sure to check out some of my newer videos !

@edwardweeden8837 5 месяцев назад

Please do one on the series of ships named Ranger. There were seven! Distinctions: John Paul Jones Flagship…named for Roger’s Rangers (a British unit which was active in the French and Indian War)…Cv-4 Ranger was the first USN ship built from the keel up as carrier, not converted…Cv-4 was attached to the British Fleet during part of WW-II…Cv-4 participated in the invasion of North Africa and inflicted significant damage on the Vichy battleship Jean Bart…CV-4 led raids against German shipping along the Norwegian coast (see Bodo raids)…also transferred aircraft from the U.S. to the ETO before being transferred to PAC Fleet and doing the same. Cv4 also acted as a Flight Training carrier in the PAC Fleet prior to being decommissioned at the end of WW-I. Ranger Cv-61 was commissioned 1954, spied on French nuclear activities in the Tuamotus (Mururoa), was the ONLY US carrier to operationally launch a U-2 from its deck (others did but only in test runs)…earned 13 battle stars off Vietnam…was the principal carrier in the attempt to invade N. Vietnam to rescue the US POWs…rescued many Vietnamese ‘boat people’ after the fall of Saigon…was the carrier present off Iran as the U.S. Hostages were finally flown out of Tehran in 1981…and was the carrier stationed closest to Kuwait (and Iraq) during Persian Gulf War I in the 1990s. She has appeared in many Hollywood movies, including Top Gun (opening flight deck scene) and several others. For years efforts were made to convert Cv-61 into America’s first supercarrier museum, sadly without success. None have been, yet. Unfortunately Cv-61was sold to Brownsville Texas ship breakers and scrapped for ONE PENNY/CENT during the Obama Administration. The latest Navy Ranger is a Robotic ship USV Ranger, crewless onboard, which has the distinction of being the first robotic vessel to launch a ‘Standard missle’ from its deck.

@woodrowwheeless2509 5 месяцев назад

CVE 63 USS ST LO. Originally christening USS MIDWAY. Part of Taffy 3. First U.S Navy ship to be sunk by kamikaze. Battle Leyte Gulf. October 25 1944. My dad was aboard and survived. Picked up six hours later.

@AnthonyBrown12324 2 месяца назад

Really interesting ; nice presentation ; narration .

@kevinpresley3136 6 месяцев назад

Just found your channel yesterday and subscribed.I did not know about the USS Robin.Great information.Have you done a video on the USS United States?I would like to see one on her.Thanks.

@svgproductions72 6 месяцев назад

I have not done one yet! I could always add it to my list

@nickdanger3802 11 месяцев назад

May 1942 USS Wasp launched Spitfires to Malta for the second time in two months. Victorious was in dry dock until 31 January 1943. She was fitted with the U.S. Navy’s TBS (“Talk Between Ships”) system, new surface- and air-search radars and respective vertical plotting board, the U.S. YB-type aircraft-homing system, and two U.S. cypher machines. The ship's stern was modified with a flight deck extension accommodating a new “7 wire” and providing additional deck park space. Additional antiaircraft guns, both 20mm Oerlikons and quad 40mm Bofors, were added. A U.S. Navy Mark 51 fire-control director was sited on the gallery deck amidships on each side. A new fire-suppression system was installed in the crew spaces and a control station added to the hanger deck. On 1 January 1943, Victorious’ obsolescent Fairey Albacore torpedo bombers were flown off to Norfolk Naval Air Station and replaced with new U.S. TBF Avengers. Work-ups with these were conducted at Naval Air Station Norfolk. To accommodate these much heavier aircraft, the arrestor wires were strengthened. All embarked aircraft received U.S. national insignia, but retained either Royal Navy or U.S. Navy camouflage schemes. A 35-man U.S. naval aviation liaison team was embarked to acquaint its British counterparts with U.S. take-off, landing, and shipboard aircraft-handling signals and practices. Specialists on the team familiarized the British crew with U.S. Navy communications and encryption procedures, which would henceforth be in use. In anticipation of combat service in the tropics, Royal Navy personnel were issued U.S. Navy khaki and dungaree shipboard working uniforms to be worn in lieu of the British tropical whites.

@svgproductions72 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for the extra detail ! I would have loved to include those facts as I’m a very detail oriented person, but it would have made this video very long!

@Melody_Raventress 6 месяцев назад

Very cool, love the "USS Robin".

@andrewtaylor940 6 месяцев назад

The US Navy also added 2 Ice Cream Machines to Victorious. These remained aboard when the ship was returned to the Royal Navy. An Admiral ordered them removed as “such things were far too luxurious for Royal Navy sailors!” They would later be put back when the ship returned to the Pacific, and the Admiralty got a look at how unbelievably effective the US Navy’s bounty of 5 gallons of Ice Cream for every downed pilot or aircrew rescued by a ship or sub, was. Destroyer and Sub crews would move Heaven and earth to find pilots, in order to claim their precious extra ice cream. Granted the British Admirals and US Destroyer crews would have been much happier if they could just hand over a case of beer for each pilot returned to his carrier. But US Navy regs said Hell No to that idea. Also everybody gets the teaming with Saratoga backwards. They assume Victorious as the smaller carrier got all the fighters. While they did experiment with that. They got better results moving Saratoga’s one Avenger squadron to Victorious. Victorious could just barely fit 2 Avenger squadrons. But by clearing the space of that one Avenger Squadron Saratoga could fit 2 full Squadrons of Wildcats. Vastly increasing their fighter protection, at no net loss of strike power. The modifications made to Victorious for US service as Robin get a little muddied. She was being sent to Virginia for a major refit anyway. So many of the changes made were part of that planned refit, which among other things would convert her to operate Grumman Avengers. And those were going to happen regardless. Lengthening and strengthening the flight deck. More robust arrestor wires. And some of the changes to the bridge island were in support of that. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe she was the first British Carrier to receive the Avengers. Part of the reason the Royal Navy agreed to the loan was it shaved a lot of time off their carrier work ups with the new planes in the long run. In much the same way the modern Queen Elizabeth was carrying a U.S. Marine air group to work up the F-35B’s. The US Loan really was not that much longer than the planned down time for the Carriers refit and Workups.

@ivoryjohnson4662 5 месяцев назад

Very in-depth video very well narrated. Keep your narratives like this and you will do well

@svgproductions72 5 месяцев назад

Thank you! I appreciate it, be sure to check out some of my newer videos!

@tedunderhill9718 8 месяцев назад

I'd love to see a video on the reasons for the camoflage painted on ths ships.

@svgproductions72 8 месяцев назад

This is a great idea! Thank you for sharing, I’d like to look into this and make graphics. I have it on my list

@simonelsey 6 месяцев назад

dazzle paint goes back to ww1

@johnheigis83 5 месяцев назад

Good work, young man

@grahamcoster8333 6 месяцев назад

Excellent video! Thank you 🙏

@svgproductions72 6 месяцев назад

Thank you I appreciate it!

@grahamcoster8333 6 месяцев назад

@svgproductions72 Actually, it's not just this video, I really enjoy all your excellent videos. I'm subscribed with bell on and can't wait see your next stuff.

@svgproductions72 6 месяцев назад

@@grahamcoster8333 wow!! Thank you very much, I have a few videos ideas in the works, be in the lookout!

@kevinmalloy2180 11 месяцев назад

Fascinating. Thanks!

@svgproductions72 11 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@chriswatts2096 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for your video and knowledge

@davidlove21 5 месяцев назад

Well done !

@kennethhamby9811 5 месяцев назад

My Dad served on the Langley, newly commissioned in ‘43.

@rickklein7792 5 месяцев назад

My father served aboard CVE-1 USS Long Island. 42-46

@davidgardner863 6 месяцев назад

I would like to know what WWII carriers used catapults. I heard some were even launched from the hangar deck.

@svgproductions72 6 месяцев назад

Most, if not all, of the US carriers during WWII had catapults. Check out my latest carrier video to learn more! For the hangar deck catapults I covered that in more detail in my video “5 Facts You may have not known about US carriers” -May 2023

@MISSIONCAT11 5 месяцев назад

This video was well done - very factual, which I like. How about a video investigation into the miscues and wasteful loss of US Navy pilots under Admiral Mitcher ? He was connected in some way with the goofy action of the Hornet's aircraft at Midway, with many losses and zero participation in the morning attacks on Nagumo's Japanese carriers. Later in the war, Mitcher sent many airplanes off at 5pm to attack a Japanese fleet. Some of the boys got lost or ran out of gasoline after sundown while returning to the US fleet, and then had to try to land on carriers in the dark. The wasteful command of Mitcher may have been shushed-up so not to soil the victories of the US Navy.

@raywhitehead730 5 месяцев назад

You are correct, at the end of Ww2 America had about 140 aircraft carriers, of all types numbers vary a little depending on how the authors number an aircraft carrier. For example , a number of carriers were built and launched, but never hosted planes, because the war just ended. About, 35 were Fleet Carriers so called because they could host more then about 50 airplane s.

@svgproductions72 5 месяцев назад

So I have a newer video that goes in depth about the amount of carriers the US had during WWII, this number I gave in the video is a bit off. It’s really about ~110, as 34 US built Bogue class went to the Royal Navy. Be sure to check that video out, it goes in depth about the classes!

@raywhitehead730 5 месяцев назад

Retired Naval Aviator, I served on two US Carriers that served during WW2. The US kept them going for Many years.

@svgproductions72 4 месяца назад

@@raywhitehead730 which two ships?

@IamJTH 5 месяцев назад

My grandfather was on the Santee

@chrisfimple973 5 месяцев назад

Low viewing of this video,most young people don't care,no respect for the past, and even not being young folks don't care, just a opinion,and can be wrong.thank you for posting this!

@thomasmitchell7645 6 месяцев назад

I would like to see a comparison of the non-fighter carrier aircraft (dive bombers and torpedo bombers) that came into service during the war with their predecessors.

@grahamkearnon6682 5 месяцев назад

Thestory not being told is just how desperate King had to be to make that royal navy carrier request. He personally hated the british, detested the british toffs at the officer class. Early in the US war some two years behind the british who had gained a lot of experiences King refused to join the Convoy system of moving cargo ships, he held out until the US ship losses grew to large to be ignored.

@nickdanger3802 5 месяцев назад

USS Wasp As a result, it looked as if the acute situation required a second ferry run to Malta. Accordingly, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, fearing that Malta would be "pounded to bits", asked President Roosevelt to allow Wasp to have "another good sting." Roosevelt responded in the affirmative. Wasp loaded another contingent of Spitfire Vs at King George V Dock Glasgow and sailed for the Mediterranean on 3 May. Again, Wasp proceeded unmolested. This time, the British carrier HMS Eagle accompanied Wasp, and she, too, carried a contingent of Spitfires bound for Malta. This was the start of Operation Bowery. While Wasp was launching Spits to Malta for the second time in two months, the USN lost one fleet carrier, one fleet destroyer and one fleet oiler with another fleet carrier damaged at Coral Sea preventing the IJN from landing troops on the south coast of New Guinea.

@charleswendt4868 4 месяца назад

My parents worked on the Buffalo before she became the Sable.

@joechang8696 6 месяцев назад

how it must have pained Adm King to ask for British assistance

@nickdanger3802 6 месяцев назад

@zogzog1063 4 месяца назад

We all know the concept of American Industrial Might. This is the EVIDENCE.

@billjohnson9718 5 месяцев назад

Ticonderoga Richard A Johnson

@philipvandyke5980 5 месяцев назад

I think your title does not create interest to click on video

@jimhancock1320 6 месяцев назад

Why did the US not have a aircraft carrier in the Atlantic to protect the American convoys to the UK😊they could have protected the convoys against the u boats and German destroyers

@svgproductions72 6 месяцев назад

The US and Royal Navy did have committed Escort Carriers for convoy protection/submarine patrol/hunting! For the US these mainly were the Bogue class carriers along with a few Casablanca class

@jimhancock1320 6 месяцев назад

@@svgproductions72 thanks. Seamed they were never any around

@jimhancock1320 6 месяцев назад

Is there any records on the number of encounters with the UBoats and results

@nickdanger3802 6 месяцев назад

@@jimhancock1320 38 escort carriers Lend Leased to Britain from November 1941. U 505 The Allies had learned from decrypted German messages that U-boats were operating near Cape Verde, but not their exact locations.[23][24] The US Navy dispatched Task Group 22.3 to the area, a hunter-killer group commanded by Captain Daniel V. Gallery. TG 22.3 consisted of the escort aircraft carrier Guadalcanal and the destroyer escorts Pillsbury, Pope, Flaherty, Chatelain, and Jenks under Commander Frederick S. Hall.[25] The group sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, on 15 May 1944 and began searching for U-boats in the area in late May, using high-frequency direction-finding fixes ("huff-duff") and air and surface reconnaissance. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-505#Twelfth_patrol_and_capture

@VectorGhost 11 месяцев назад

Cold war ships and aircraft. there isn't a single channel that does Cold war, everyone does damn WW2 crap. That being Said, The crusader Aircraft and its sub variants

@svgproductions72 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for the comment, I don’t disagree with you, WWII is a very saturated subject on RU-vid. Unfortunately this is were I’m most versed, but I will admit I have been reading more into Cold War era ships and aircraft. I know it’s silly to cite, but the game War Thunder opened my eyes to more Cold War era vehicles. Down the line I’m sure I will dive into those for content!

@VectorGhost 11 месяцев назад

@@svgproductions72 ya cold war is the one area that has not been done

@Melody_Raventress 6 месяцев назад

I'd agree that WW2 is overexposed, but there is plenty great of cold war stuff out there, you just have to look for it.

@mbryson2899 6 месяцев назад

@@VectorGhostYeah, that WWII crap is just campfire stories about an unimportant conflict. Who knows why so many focus on it, it made no difference.