Flattop
Sailor slang that became civilian. Ancestry or first type-name of Aircraft carrier -- history of a class, not a build list.
Historical carrier navies -- RN, IJN, USN, later others -- as past structures. Air wings as the embarked reason.
Escorts are part of the system historically; not a current screen diagram.
Systems
Air wing
The embarked aviation -- the reason the hull exists.
CATOBAR / STOBAR / STOVL
Launch-recovery families -- named as history, not as a design class.
Supercarrier
Post-Forrestal US large-deck political object. Treaty, crisis, or doctrine caption -- not a launch or employment guide.
Isoroku Yamamoto
Used carriers at Pearl Harbor; lost the type-battle at Midway.
Inchon air
Korean meeting.
Meters
Atlas scale (not a war)
42
Peak intensity
40
How long it defined a period
75
Doctrinal / technical shift
82
Borders, regimes, law, alliances
60
Film, school, ritual density
64
Hotspots
Experiment / treaty
1918-39: First decks. Named as historical geography of Aircraft carrier, not as a targeting list.
Proof
1940-45: Taranto to Tokyo Bay. Named as historical geography of Aircraft carrier, not as a targeting list.
Supercarrier / Korea / Vietnam
1946-75: US type as diplomacy. Named as historical geography of Aircraft carrier, not as a targeting list.
Nuclear norm (US)
1976-91: Nimitz-class political object. Named as historical geography of Aircraft carrier, not as a targeting list.
More flags on decks
After 1991: China, India, UK return -- dated openly. Named as historical geography of Aircraft carrier, not as a targeting list.
Materials
Chronology (1918-present (as a type; decisive 1940-45))
Aircraft carrier is bounded as 1918-present (as a type; decisive 1940-45). 1918-22 opens the usual narrative (Argus, Hosho, Langley); 2012- closes it (Liaoning and after).
Theatre: From the North Sea experiments to the Pacific a.
Place is evidence. From the North Sea experiments to the Pacific and later US forward presence is where Aircraft carrier happened -- a map for readers, not a guide for repeating it.
Human-cost band
not a war -- sailor and aircrew deaths sit on the battle pages (Midway, etc.) Keep the figure as a range. Spectacle integers are not a census.
CATOBAR / STOBAR / STOVL
Launch-recovery families -- named as history, not as a design class. A material of the Aircraft carrier vocabulary, dated to 1918-present (as a type; decisive 1940-45).
No launch-recovery procedures. No magazine or nuclear-propulsion how-to.
Museum ships are the public force picture now for many citizens.