US Testing its New Gigantic $13 Billion Aircraft Carrier REACTION | OFFICE BLOKES REACT!! 

The first aircraft carriers were created during WWI. The British actually took used merchant ships and built flight decks on top of them.

The US not only had Aircraft carriers in WW2, they were the primary targets of the Japanese during their surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. However, the carriers were not there that day.

The orange thing that was catapulted from the flight deck was a weight simulator. It weighs about the same as a fully loaded plane. It is to test the catapult system. The USAs first aircraft carrier was the USS Langley ( CV 1), it was a converted collier and was converted in 1920. There were 151 US Carriers built in WWII. Yeah, what was all the train stuff about?

Yes, we had US and Japan had aircraft carriers prior to the world war 2. See the battle of Midway! US sank 3 Japanese carriers. At the end of the war the USA had about 90+ aircraft carriers of different types. By the end of it. 24 were the biggest type. Early in the war, the usa lauched bombers off a carrier to bomb tokyo. The pilots bailed out over china. It was called the dolittle raid. Dolittle was the commander of the raid. It was mostly to boost american morale and send a message to Japan.

Aircraft carriers decided the naval war in the pacific in world war 2.

I retired last year after 22 years in the US Navy and was stationed onboard the USS Enterprise (CVN65) and I had the honor of riding onboard for her final deployment after 52 years. These carriers are amazing and the amount of Sailors and firepower onboard is amazing.

America had 3 major carriers pacific Hornet, Enterprise and Yorktown was stationed at Pearl Harbor but were at sea during the attack and so they were used to win the battlerof Midway Island

Clearly you guys need to do a reaction to The battle of Midway during WW2 😂 yes, there were air craft carriers in WW2 in fact Japan had more air craft carriers than the U.S

The Battle of Midway will tell you all you need to know about Aircraft Carriers.

Once again, office bloke, Dave is right, but unsure of his answer. Office bloke Daz is wrong, but confident in his answer. 😂 There were aircraft carriers in world war 2. The planes weren’t jet-powered though.

I like it when reaction channels real time search for stuff they don't know instead of using the "tell us in the comments" gimmick. Just google that stuff right then and there. Takes 10 seconds; and as much as you guys love to talk, I don't think anyone would mind.

Let’s all give Dave a round of applause for actually being right for once! 👏👏👏

Mildly disappointed none of the OB's know the illustrious history of their own Royal Navy's aircraft carriers in WWII and beyond, including HMS Illustrious. Something to look into perhaps. Definitely something to be proud of.

To qualify as an aircraft carrier, the planes must be able to land on it, otherwise, it's any other seaplane tender or surface vessel with a catapult. That orange thing that flew off the end of the ship was a catapult weight, they were testing the performance of the plane launch system. Behind the catapult, on the aft end of the ship, they have a "Cable restricted landing system". Basically, the planes come down, under power, and deployed a small hook underneath their aircraft. The hook catches a series of cables and it also immediately stops the plane. The local airbase near me has a cable landing system, on land, for emergencies. The cable system has been in use since the begining but only some ships had catapults, during WWII, the planes had to take off under their own power but land using the cables. 7:40 lol, the "Local airbase" I was referring to is NAS Jax (Jacksonville), lol I watched the sea trials a few times.

HMS Argus was a British aircraft carrier that served in the Royal Navy from 1918 to 1944. She was converted from an ocean liner that was under construction when the First World War began and became the first example of the standard pattern of aircraft carrier, with a full-length flight deck that allowed wheeled aircraft to take off and land.

1:56 That beautiful opening shot is of the Yorktown sitting in Charleston Harbor (my hometown). It's been decommissioned for decades and serves as a popular museum and tourist site.

Yes, there were aircraft carriers in WWII. The US, UK, and Japan all operated aircraft carriers. The US started with 7 fleet carriers, if my count is correct, and commissioned during the conflict, 24 large fleet carriers of the Essex class, three light carriers of the Princeton class, and 151 escort carriers build on mercantile hulls.

Grew up in Virginia where they built the carriers. It's a beautiful thing to watch everyday as you cross the bridge by the shipyard.

The United States had 105 aircraft carriers of all types in World War II. Sixty-four of them were of the smaller escort carrier type. The larger attack carriers had crews numbering from 1,000 to 3,500 men. 7 The large majority of these were in action in the Pacific.

The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal played a decisive role in the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck in World War 2. The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious played a major role in the destruction of about half of the Italian naval fleet at the battle of Taranto in 1940.

I'd much rather be in a drydock underneath a carrier. I can understand being crushed to the thickness of a sheet of paper by a ship, but I can't understand being eaten by something so strange, I can't comprehend it. There's fish down there with their eye encased within a transparent head. Things like that keep me up at night.

Aircraft carriers started in WWI, started to build up in importance over the inter-war years. But carrier-based aircraft were seen as mainly a scouting and harrassing type of unit at first. As time went on, they were improved to the point where it would be considered a way to sink a battleship if you were lucky. However, in the late 1930s, there was such a rapid advance in naval aircraft technology they were suddenly starting to be seen as serious warships. However, fleets were still centered around battleships. The Japanese were perhaps the most forward-thinking about carrier force at the time. Until the Japanese managed to wipe out a significant number of American battleships at Pearl Harbor in 1941, while the U.S. main carrier ships were out on an exercise. Carrier ships turned out to be the real dominant force in the war after that, completely eclipsing the role of the battleship. Especially after managing to wreck the Japanese carrier fleet at Midway due to superior military intelligence and a huge amount of luck. Many aircraft carriers in WWII were converted battleships.

Carriers were most famously used in WW2, but were available in WW1. Mostly by the Japanese and American navies, but the UK had several, some of which were sunk by German and Japanese forces. The American navy fought several major battles in which carriers were most influential at the battles of Coral Sea, Midway, Eastern Solomons, Santa Cruz, and Philippine Sea.

On the ship's maiden voyage, I was stationed on the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) in 1983. It was going around the world and took about ten months to complete. I saw Casablanca, Morroco, the Ivory Coast, Perth, Australia, Hong Kong, Sasebo, Japan, Pusan, South Korea, Subic Bay, the Philippines, and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. After visiting all those places, the ship finally came to its home base in Alameda, California. That ship could carry about 6,000 people and holds over 97 pieces of aircraft. It has a library, a weight room, two dining rooms for the enlisted, one for the chief petty officers, and one for the officers. There are so many stairways that can go through different parts of the ship. Each has elevated doorways in case of flooding or fires using a heavy door and a latch. One has to step over those doorways, which are called knee knockers by the crew. Each berthing area has a lounge with a TV for people to take a break. The enlisted had to sleep on separate bunk beds that could hold three people each. One can lift the bed to find a storage place to put personal items, clothes, and other things, and it has a place to lock it down to prevent others from stealing. This is what I can remember since it has been over forty years. This ship has undergone several updates to make it current with new technology.

Oh lordy, let's put the brakes on haha. Blokes, maybe check out some history videos to learn about military technology in WW2. One of the biggest carrier assaults took place at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. All aircraft carriers and support ships. Daz said on his channel he liked to learn a lot about random stuff just enough to have an educated conversation starter. WW2 is a massive category of history with tons to learn. It's really quite fascinating

Mark 13:58. Aircraft intended for aircraft carriers, need to be built tougher than those made for air forces and armies, as they need to be able to handle the forces and shocks of catapults and cables, without being ripped apart by them. ⚓

Yes they had Aircraft Carriers in wwii. Taking off from a carrier mostly depends on the minimum takeoff speed of the plane.

US definitely had aircraft carriers during WW2. They didn’t have many at the beginning but by the end their aircraft carrier fleet dwarfed every other country’s.

Spent nearly 15 months of my life on the USS Bush CVN 77. It's so much bigger than you think. You get used to life after a few weeks.

We absolutely had aircraft carriers in WWII, they were instrumental in winning the battle of the pacific against the Japanese.

at the 3 Minute ans 20 second mark through the 3 Minute and 29 Second mark, what you are wondering about are called TEST SLEDS, Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding have these sleds of varying weights to include all of the different aircraft and configurations, these test are used to prove out the catapult systems and to calibrate them for the expected weights of aircraft that they will be required to shoot into the air, a measurement is taken from the end of the catapult to the splashdown of the sled, if it is too far or too short, for that sled, adjustments will have to be made to get the sled to splash into the water at the right point, these tests are numerous and very important to be done BEFORE an aircraft with humans in it are to be allowed to be hooked up to the catapult and sent to go flying. yes both Japan and the United States did have and use aircraft carriers, but back then, they were propeller driven planes, that were far lighter than Today's jets, all aircraft carriers back in WWII were of a straight deck design, the firs hydraulic catapults only came out on the lest few of the Essex class carriers, and if my memory from my extensive studying of the Pacific war, only 2 of these carriers actually saw combat, the Midway class was actually built with the hydraulic catapults but shortly after construction of the last one was completed, all 3 of them were brought back into the yards and had the fairly weak Hydraulic catapults were removed and the much more robust, stronger, and reliable steam catapults were installed, those have remained as a mainstay on all of our aircraft carriers through CVN-77 the U.S.S. George Herbert Walker Bush, which is the last constructed Nimitz class carrier, the new Ford class carrier has a LOT of new technologies involved in its construction, not the least of which is the EMALS or Electro-Magnetic, Aircraft Launching System, this new catapult system has a smaller, (SHALLOWER) footprint on the flight deck, and removes the 4 huge steam accumulator tanks from the inside of the ship, and literally hundreds of miles of steam piping, valves, filters, junctions, sensors, ECT. that was required for the steam catapults. at the 6 Minutes and 20 Second mark, you started seeing the shock testing, large underwater explosive are pre-placed at different depths, then the carrier will be sailed to a specific distance from it and it is detonated, about a dozen of these are done, and measurements are taken, then the ship returns to the ship yard and fry docked and the entire hull is examined for any possible damage that might have occurred during the test, EVERY American Aircraft Carrier, since CV-59 has had to pass this test. to my knowledge, (AND I MIGHT BE WRONG) only 1 has failed the shock test, CV-64 the U.S.S. Constellation, and repairs had to be made, after the shock test, a large portion of the port side of the hull had to be cut away, along with the underlying frame structures, and had to be meticulously replaced with new steel, and new hull plates, when that was completed, it had to undergo the shock test again, once it passed, it was able to move on to the next phase of testing before delivering it to the U.S. Navy.

Actually the US did have carriers in WW2. 105 to be exact. Aircraft carriers were one of the most important weapons used by the US during WW2 actually. The battle of Midway being the best example of this. Though back then the US had way more carriers with less capabilities. Also fear of the ocean is not crazy. HP Lovecraft capitalized on this idea with Lovecraftian horror. It was his biggest inspiration besides space

There were aircraft carriers going all the way back to World War I, fellas

Helicopters did exist in WW2 but they were still experimental and very rarely used….Fun fact, the very first helicopter rescue mission was during WW2 where a U.S. pilot loaded up his helicopter full of fuel cans to extend his range and recovered downed pilots in the jungles of SE Asia.

The item "flung off the Carrier" is a weighted sled to check the Catapult system, the Ford Class Carriers use ELECTROMAGNETIC catapults instead of STEAM as previous Carriers

The Royal Navy uses aircraft carriers to great effect in world war two. They used one to cripple the German battleship Bismarck. They also raided the Italian naval base at Taranto in a night attack and sank or damaged multiple Italian battleships.

1911 was the first seaplane carrier, would use a crane to lower and raise seaplanes. 1918 was the first true aircraft carrier as we would recognize them.

Aircraft Carriers replaced Battleships as the primary fighting vessel in the fleet during World War 2 - though the earliest vessels date from near the end of World War One. While a modern US Carrier may take 6 years to build - they are designed to remain in service for 50 to 60 years. The very first nuclear powered Carrier, USS Enterprise (CVN-65), was actively in commission from 1961 through 2012. The second nuclear powered Carrier, USS Nimitz (CVN-68), was commissioned in 1975 and is still in active service.

Great video, Blokes. The US alone had over 100 aircraft carriers in WW2, but most were escort carriers that could only field on average about 15-20 aircraft. The UK, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada, Romania and Sweden all had at least one aircraft carrier of some type. The most primitive were ships of other type converted by adding a wooden deck. Prop planes had enough runway to take off and land, provided the pilot was sufficiently skilled.

The Japanese had aircraft carriers. That's how their Japanese Zeros were able to get within flying range of Pearl Harbor. On 7 December 1941, the three US Pacific Fleet aircraft carriers were USS Enterprise (CV-6), USS Lexington (CV-2), and USS Saratoga(CV-3).

Sea trials! Brings back serious memories! We soldiers aboard we have sailors, after only 21 years of active duty I called it quits after I was relieved of my final watch! It was quite an experience, it brings about serious humility & honor to be part of such a force out at God’s wide open seas!

during ww2 america had a mix of over 100 escort carriers and battle carriers, at the hieght of production they produced dozens in less than a year! also in the early atomic testing phase, test "able" and "Baker" detonated atomic bombs very very close to 2 American carriers and several battle ships, including the japanese battle cruiser "nagato" and german ship "sharnhost" None were sunk or even heavily damaged!! later on the "America" super carrier was struck by direct hits 28 times with bombs torpedos, and cruise missiles - it did not sink !! it had to saddles with explosives throught the entire carrier to be sunk

They had aircraft carriers in the military before they had helicopters. The US, the Japanese, Britain, and other countries had aircraft carriers during WW2. The first primitive carriers had landing strips made of lumber on their gun barrels for biplanes to take off from. (They landed on shore or on observation blimps).

British Aircraft Carrier raid in WW1 (yes, WW1). "The Tondern raid or Operation F.7, was a British bombing raid mounted by the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force against the Imperial German Navy airship base at Tønder, Denmark, then a part of Germany. The airships were used for the strategic bombing of Britain. It was the first attack in history by aircraft from an aircraft carrier. On 19 July 1918, seven Sopwith Camels took off from the converted battlecruiser HMS Furious. For the loss of one man and several aircraft, the British destroyed Zeppelins L 54, L 60 and a captive balloon."

In the early days of jets, they were completely incapable of taking off from carriers because they required too much airspeed to produce the thrust necessary to take off from them. Propeller planes could generate more thrust at low speed to the point that even after the war, the US Navy was still procuring new propeller fighter aircraft.

Additionally, the famous 'Doolittle Raid' on Tokyo was 9 USAAF bomber aircraft which was launched from an aircraft carrier...it was the only way the US could get AF bombers within range of Tokyo in 1942.

she said, "soldiers on boarrd" HAHAHAHAHAHA🤣🤣🤣😂😂😆...An AC is only about 100,000 tons or a bit more. Being under one is the darkest place a diver can be.

The U.S. built 24 Essex-class carriers during and shortly after WW2, 14 of which saw combat. Japan could not have been defeated without them. At one point in late 1942, the U.S. was down to one carrier and borrowed one or two from the UK for a few months. Two years later the U.S. Navy had so many large Essex-class and smaller carriers in service that it could operate continually at sea. The Japanese Navy, which had been the world's third largest, was obliterated. Carriers in WW2 had arrestor wires for landing planes but did not require catapults for the slower and lighter propeller planes. These WW2 carriers were retrofitted for jets in the 1950s. Except for some Royal Navy operations in the Mediterranean, the main need for aircraft carriers in the European theater of WW2 was the Battle of the Atlantic. The US and the UK designed a new, small type of carrier called escort carriers, nicknamed "baby flattops," which were built using the hull of a cargo ship. Thick armor and fast, expensive warship engines were unnecessary, so they were quickly built (a total of 122). They were used to escort convoys of cargo ships and oil tankers. They carried fewer planes, but enough to maintain an air patrol over a convoy. U-boats could not stay submerged like modern submarines, and they were very vulnerable on the surface. Before the use of escort carriers, wolfpacks of U-boats had sunk hundreds of ships in the middle of the Atlantic, where land-based patrol planes did not have the range to fly.

they 100% had aircraft carriers in WW2, lol. And as far as technology advancing, that's why everything is upgradable other than the hull

Daz, the WWII carrier planes were prop driven, and their takeoff speed was slow, because it had to be. The Doolittle Raiders of WWII attacked Japan early in the war by flying huge bombers off a carrier, into a headwind of course.

At the end of WWII the USA had about 100 aircraft carriers, 60+ were smaller escort carriers and 25+ fleet carriers, 800-3500 personnel on each carrier, 12 were sunk during the war. BTW, we started the war with only 8 carriers.

Ooof boys. Time to hit the history books again. Aircraft carriers were the only reason the US was able to challenge in the Pacific theater. Hell, lookup Doolittle’s Raid.

There absolutely were aircraft carriers in WWII. In fact, the first US air raid on Japan was also the first time that *bombers* were launched from the deck of a carrier at sea. The "Doolittle's Raiders" became a household name and the feat has not been accomplished (or attempted) since. The attack on Pearl Harbor was only possible because of aircraft carriers, and the Japanese were disappointed to find that all of the US carriers were at sea on Dec. 7,1941. In the Battle of Midway the US Navy sunk four Japanese carriers in one day, signaling the beginning of the end of the Japan's navy.

PS: By the way! Aircraft Carriers, are a type of, "warship"! ⚓

PS: Okay, I finished trying to identify every aircraft, but on my smartphone, most of them are too small. But I got the identifiable ones. 👍

CVN 78 Gerald R Ford CVN 79 John F Kennedy CVN 80 Enterprise No, the aircraft carrier has been around since the 1920s. Both Japan and the US used them extensively in the Pacific, but the US used them in the Atlantic as well, but not to the same extent. Germany also had a carrier called the Graf Zeppelin. It was sunk in the Mediterranean I believe. But don't quote me on that. The UK had 14 carriers going back to the 1910s. Some of the early ones weren't that big of course. The reason this class of ship has gotten so big in modern times is that the size of the aircraft has gotten bigger. WWI carriers were only 100 ft long or so, but the new Ford class carriers are over 1100 ft long. And I think American carriers are the only ones that use catapult launch systems. The Nimitz class carriers use steam catapults, while the new Ford class uses an electro-magnetic catapult like a rail gun. And this new feature was one of the technical problems that delayed the deployment of the Gerald R Ford, among other things. But they got all the bugs worked out of all these new systems, and deployed the Ford earlier this year. The Kennedy was Christianed in late 2019, but won't be delivered to the Navy until June 2024. The Enterprise is currently being built and is the first Carrier to ever been built around digital platforms.

yes a little over 5000 people on the aircraft carrier. and they were testing the catapult with a weight equal to a fighter jet. they call the weight "a sled"..

Nimitz class carriers have over 6,000 personnel (crew and aircrew), the carrier has a displacement of 102,000t and a flight deck length of 332.9m. 🚢 The US Navy absolutely had aircraft carriers in WW2, as did the Japanese. The carriers were out on maneuvers at the time of the attack on Pearl harbor. And the decks of those ships were long enough for launching aircraft. Catapults help launch planes, now. Probably wasn't needed that much back then.

My dad served aboard the USS Eisenhower (CVN-69). It's a huge nuclear-powered aircraft carrier (with a crew of about 6,000). I was able to attend a "tiger cruise" (a short day-cruise where the sailors' families are invited aboard). It was an amazing experience! I was able to visit my dad's haunts onboard and eat great food in one of the officer messes. Apparently, the carrier normally serves more than 20,000 meals per day.

Hey blokes, I see that MANY people gave you info about the aircraft carriers during WWII, so I’ll give you a little info regarding your question about a comparison of a nuclear aircraft carrier to current cruise ships. The current largest cruise ship in the world is Royal Carribean’s Wonder of the Seas, which is 1188’ in length and the the US Gerald R Ford is about 1100’ long. The USS Ford has a wider overall beam (because of the wide flight deck), but it is about 20’ narrower at the waterline and if you look at pictures of both ships, the Wonder of the Seas looks “bulkier” from the waterline upward. Comparing the weight of the ships is difficult because the Ford is listed at 100,000 long tons with a full load (which is the actual weight of the ship as judged by its displacement) and the Wonder of the Seas is listed at about 236,000 gross tonnage, which is a measurement of the overall internal volume of the ship and has nothing to do with weight. In regards to speed, the USS Ford is significantly faster. The cruise speed of the Wonder of the Seas is 22 knots (about 25mph) and the maximum speed of the USS Ford is listed as “in excess of 30 knots” (about 35mph), but it could go significantly faster (the actual maximum speed is classified). I recently saw an interview with a retired admiral who commanded a nuclear aircraft carrier which was taken out of service while under his command (after almost 40 years of service) and he wouldn’t outright say the max speed, but he related that just before it was retired from service, he was authorized to proceed at max speed to a deployment in the Middle East and he gave his approximate starting and ending locations and the time it took him to get there (which surprised the Navy veteran interviewer). I was able to figure out the approximate speed by using the time and looking up the distance, which gave a max speed of >40mph! Another advantage of an aircraft carrier is it has enough firepower to wipe out a small country! 😆

1.4K Thumbs Up + Mine! 👍. Thanks for the fun and informative, digital video recording! 🎬🖖✌️🤓😎🤠 Notes: I'm going to view it again, because I missed details. ⚓

The British Ark Royal aircraft carrier was instrumental in helping to sing the “Bismarck” in the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II. Helicopters became active in the Korean War in the early 1950’s. They came to prominence in the 60’s during VietNam. Military history seems to not really be taught much anymore. Cheers 🍻

The first person to ever take-off from a ship was Eugene Ely, who launched from a deck built on the forecastle of the USS Birmingham in November, 1910.

The Brits also had jets in WWII .. too late for combat. In fact .. was a Brit who invented the thing - Hans von Ohain of Germany was the designer of the first operational jet engine, though credit for the invention of the jet engine went to Great Britain's Frank Whittle. Whittle, who registered a patent for the turbojet engine in 1930, received that recognition but did not perform a flight test until 1941.

Mark 2:59. Oops! She said, "soldiers"! That's what you call the members of not just the, "United States Army", but those elsewhere. In the, "United States Navy", their sailors are, "Seamen", and they have, "Naval Aviators", and the, "United States Marine Corps"! ⚓ She should have said either, "troops" or "warriors", if she wanted to be generic. 😕😉🙄😁

The "vehicle" going off the edge is a "heavy" think to test/calibrate the catapults that speed the planes off the deck.

It breaks my heart that you guys don't immediately think of HMS Ark Royal (91) when you wondered about British carriers in WWII.

The My uncle was on a US carrier , the F.D. Roosevelt ,during the Korean war . He said that for the first 6 months he was there ,all he knew was the way from his bunk to his duty station and to the mess hall

Only two countries are currently using CATOBAR carriers: USA and France. The USS Gerald R. Ford is the only current ship using EMALS launch system; China is building one and India is planning one.

America did indeed have several aircraft carriers in the pacific in ww2. The surviving ones are all permanently docked as floating museums around the country and have tours available. Even those ones from ww2 are huge!... and haunted.

That opening shot is a load test of the catapult system. You can vary the weight of those "Dollies" and then check that the catapult will actually launch it at the correct speed. Tugs, go out and tow the dollies back for re-use.

The "lifeboat" car looking thing that was "shot" off the aircraft carrier was a test for the latest technological advancements in launching aircraft...in short, they were testing a new catapult system that works of of magnetic energy...the aircraft being tested is the US's Newest, The GERALD R FORD CLASS....If have time, for your interest not necessaily discussion (but then again it may be interesting to many) is the differences between the sling shot method of current carriers or the NIMITZ CLASS vs the magnetic technology...it's rather fascinating. PS. I believe you guys could gain a ton of ideas from a specific channel of a guy who resides not far from where I do in the State of Alabama in the SE US....His channel has ~10M subscribers or something like that and he is an engineer that contracted with the military as a weapons specialists...specifically, missiles and things like that...Anyway, his channel is called, "SMARTER EVERYDAY" & it's a really interesting channel...due to his contacts and popularity he obtains access to places others never could...he's also family friendly and very educational....Anyway, checkout his videos and see if anything there would be interested in reacting too...I have no doubt there is a ton....

I was actually on an aircraft carrier that visited Portsmouth England a couple of times. USS Harry S. Truman CVN75 2001-2005.

I’d rather be in the dry dock because you know what’s in there. Deep water freaks me out. Not knowing what’s underneath you is creepy.

The U.S. also has about 10 or 12 smaller aircraft carriers that carry helicopters, and now the F-35 variants with vertical takeoff capability as well. Id imagine drones could be used too, if not already soon.

During WWII the US had Aircraft Carriers (At one time only 1 in the whole Pacific, and eventually had over 130.), so did the Japanese (Pearl Harbor?). The British did as well, sank the Bismarck they did.

Mark ? That was a catapult test! I saw something in which someone was allowed to test how far a football 🏈 could be "kicked" by one. Interesting, I suppose, but I hate waste and littering, and the balls were not recovered. 😕

People always talk about the younger generations not knowing about history, but damn. How can you not know aircraft carriers not only existed but were crucial in the Pacific Theater during WW2?

First aircraft carriers: British were first, modifying a merchant ship to carry planes, (WWI). US, 1922. Japan, 1922 (1st built from scratch).

By the end of the 2nd world war, the US had over 30 aircraft carriers. Today, the US operates 11 Super Carriers, and some 20 sized WWII carriers. the WWII sized carriers are usually helicopter platforms and strike aircraft for Marines. However, now that the US has F-35 Stealth Jump Ships essentially, they also carry strike aircraft as well. The nearest country to our AC force, is China with 2.

At about 14:40 you mention reading skills, etc., what many do not think about, countries that score higher, only test the brightest kids. In the UK and the USA everyone is allowed to go to school. So, kids that have all sorts of mental "Special Needs" are in school and get tested as well, which bring the grades down considerably. I worked with students with Down-syndrome and Non-Verbal Autism. They were taught "Life Skills" (What an 'EXIT' sign means and when to use it, 'Red Light, Walk, Don't-Walk, so on and so forth) yet they are tested with the same "general tests" Of course they score very low as they are not taught complex math, reading or writing skills.

Carriers were EXTREMELY important in the Pacific

The US had ~105 aircraft carriers in WW2. Many of them were smaller escort carriers. There were "ONLY" 24 fleet carriers. They were all small by today's standards.

The US had DOZENS of aircraft carriers in WWIIi There were over 40 of them at Iwo Jima alone!

The United States had 105 Aircraft Carriers during WW2. There were different sizes. The Japanese used Aircraft from Carriers to Attack Pearl Harbor. There were even Aircraft Carriers in WW1

The US, Brittain and Japan had aircraft carriers during WW2, but not supercarriers or nuclear powered supercarriers yet.

I live in Jacksonville and when the aircraft carriers would come into Mayport, the planes would fly off to go to NAS Jax. I live across the river from NAS and it was quite a sight to see all those planes flying over.

The Japanese would have had a tough time bombing Pearl Harbor without carriers.

America at the end of WWII where putting to sea 1 aircraft carrier a week!

OK, I see you've already done this. I was requesting it 😊 I can't even begin to think about the architectural process for that thing!

Aircraft Carriers were pretty much the defining naval power of WWII

Especially in Midway. That was actually the beginning of the end of the war in the Pacific.

And we had an insane amount of carriers we made throughout the war, and escort carriers, we made so many escort carriers, smaller ones that carried like 1/3 or so of aircraft we gave you guys like 26 or so during WWII, lol you guys really need to look up some stuff, haha. We built the most ships of all time, of any nation, of all types in WWII. Well built/made the most of everything, that was useful and good, including going into rationing to help feed you guys and the Soviets…we gave the Soviets over a thousand locomotive engines and rail cars, that we built. Loaded and shipped to them, that made it through the u boats, so that number isn’t counting in total how many we sent, just how many actually were received in the northern ports of the Soviet Union. We gave them (Soviets) so much canned meat, their soldiers were still eating it into the 80’s at times…over 40 years later and still safe to eat, if taste and texture wasn’t good anymore. We literally out produced the world in war time goodsay the height of production, some factories had a complete, functional tank rolling off the line every hour, also with aircraft too, escort carriers I think the record was something like 3 weeks or something insane like that in late 44/early 45. Early in the war, we built entire shipyards in months, and within 6 months of the ship yard being newly built, they were rolling ships out…that’s where synthetic rubber and oil came from, we couldn’t make enough natural types fast enough, especially with losing most of the pacific early on…so we made artificial versions, still used today, or at least the basis for the ones we use now. Same thing with nylon, couldn’t get silk for parachutes, so we made nylon to replace it. We pulled all that out of asses. While doing the rest of it, and recruiting/sending off a large amount of our men and workforce. And food.

Curious how most Europeans don't have a clue how tough the war with Japan was. Japan was a formidable foe.

While stationed aboard a carrier, I had the unique opportunity to walk underneath the ship, while in dry dock in Philly! It was daytime, but as you get closer to the keel, darkness falls quickly! My take on it was this. I felt like an ant under a Locomotive! It was surreal. I walked under a Ballistic Sub. in a floating dry dock in Holy Loch, Scotland also. Super cool also! I'm very Grateful at age 60, to be able to recall such things. It boggles the mind and makes me proud to have been a part of such an Awesome Navy!

The wheeled cart they through off the deck was a test vehicle to check the catapult.

Aircraft carriers were extensively used in the Pacific War, but they weren’t nuclear powered, didn’t have jets, and were much smaller. The US alone had dozens and dozens of large fleet carriers and smaller escort carriers by the end of the war.

My father was onboard USS Thomas Jefferson in WW2....so, yes, of course they were round...cheers.

Last one, the JAPANESE had numerous aircraft carriers and the US had over 50-75 during WWII...in fact the 1st aircraft carrier was built during WWI...

And know we had them in WWII, our biggest best ones were made from converted hulls of Heavy cruisers, from before the wars, when the Washington naval treaty still applied to all the world powers. They were small, light by comparison propeller driven aircraft, large wings, good at gliding, low take off and land speed, they’d always back then turn into the wind, to launch aircraft, along with their forwards speed, helped, they landed the same way back then, as now, just a little less sophisticated.