Midway
Type-battle.
Taranto, Midway, Philippine Sea, Inchon air, Vietnam Yankee Station -- dated uses.
Diplomacy-by-deck in later crises -- named as a habit, not as a crisis option list.
Principles
Inchon air
Korean meeting.
Nuclear supercarrier
US political-industrial fact.
Essex class
The US WWII mass type. Read as a 1918-present (as a type; decisive 1940-45) concept in From the North Sea experiments to the Pacific and later US forward presence.
Supercarrier
Post-Forrestal US large-deck political object. Not a present instruction.
Steps
- Argus, Hosho, Langley
1918-22: The experiment decade.
A dated type-history beat of Aircraft carrier (1918-present (as a type; decisive 1940-45)). No employment, arming, or build steps.
- Washington Treaty
1922: Carrier clauses as law.
A dated type-history beat of Aircraft carrier (1918-present (as a type; decisive 1940-45)). No employment, arming, or build steps.
- Taranto
1940-11: A harbour raid from a deck.
A dated type-history beat of Aircraft carrier (1918-present (as a type; decisive 1940-45)). No employment, arming, or build steps.
- Pearl Harbor
1941-12: The type's political shock in the US.
A dated type-history beat of Aircraft carrier (1918-present (as a type; decisive 1940-45)). No employment, arming, or build steps.
- Midway
1942-06: Carrier vs carrier decision.
A dated type-history beat of Aircraft carrier (1918-present (as a type; decisive 1940-45)). No employment, arming, or build steps.
- Philippine Sea / kamikaze
1944-45: Mass decks and a late reply.
A dated type-history beat of Aircraft carrier (1918-present (as a type; decisive 1940-45)). No employment, arming, or build steps.
Diagrams
From Argus, Hosho, Langley (1918-22) through Philippine Sea / kamikaze (1944-45) to Liaoning and after (2012-) in From the North Sea experiments to the Pacific and later US forward presence. One sequence, not a staff overlay.
Isoroku Yamamoto (Combined Fleet) and Chester Nimitz (CINCPAC) sit at the centre of most English accounts; Arthur Doyle (Inchon) and Chinese programme leads -- open source correct the usual photograph.
Limits
Source limits
Figures such as "not a war -- sailor and aircrew deaths sit on the battle pages (Midway, etc.)" stay in ranges because records are incomplete, political, or still closed. What happened at Midway? is answered as a band.
No how-to
Aircraft carrier is systems history and employment as a past fact. This page does not teach manufacturing, arming, aiming, or attack procedures.
Memory bias
English-language fame of Aircraft carrier and local memory in From the North Sea experiments to the Pacific and later US forward presence are not the same map. Chinese programme leads -- open source is often the correction the first photograph drops.
No strike-planning. No "how to kill a carrier" content.
Kamikaze is a 1944-45 historical reply, not a method to study as a technique.