Military history

APPENDIX A

American and Japanese Aircraft Carriers

(NOTE: USS Essex, the first of an eventual twenty-four carriers of her class that would be built during the war, was launched in July 1942 and commissioned in December. She and each of her sister ships displaced 36,000 tons and carried 90–100 aircraft.)

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