Midway
Type-battle.
Capital-ship prestige moved from armour to a deck. Alliance politics followed the decks.
A short list of operator states is a map of industrial-military ambition.
Lessons
Inchon air
Korean meeting.
Nuclear supercarrier
US political-industrial fact.
Keep the cost as a range
not a war -- sailor and aircrew deaths sit on the battle pages (Midway, etc.) Aircraft carrier is not improved by a fake precise integer.
Memory is national
US/UK/AU/CA rites and the memory of From the North Sea experiments to the Pacific and later US forward presence will not match. Name the difference when teaching Aircraft carrier.
Unresolved
Census still a band
"not a war -- sailor and aircrew deaths sit on the battle pages (Midway, etc.)" remains a band. New archives refine Aircraft carrier; they do not un-happen 1918-present (as a type; decisive 1940-45).
Archives uneven
Files on Aircraft carrier remain unevenly open across From the North Sea experiments to the Pacific and later US forward presence. Louis Mountbatten / CVA politics's paper trail is not the same as Isoroku Yamamoto's.
Escort carrier
The small second type of 1942-45.
Teaching hours
English classroom hours on Aircraft carrier still disagree with hours in From the North Sea experiments to the Pacific and later US forward presence. Is this a how-to operate a carrier? is often the gap.
Shifts
Experiment / treaty
1918-39: First decks.
Supercarrier / Korea / Vietnam
1946-75: US type as diplomacy.
More flags on decks
After 1991: China, India, UK return -- dated openly.
Afterlife of the name
Aircraft carrier left institutions and stories that outlasted 1918-present (as a type; decisive 1940-45). Isoroku Yamamoto became a caption; From the North Sea experiments to the Pacific and later US forward presence kept the rubble or the letterhead.
Outlook
Scholarship
New archives will refine Aircraft carrier (Midway, UK CVA-01 death) without un-happening 1918-present (as a type; decisive 1940-45).
Memory handover
As witnesses die, museums and film carry Aircraft carrier. Marc Mitscher and Jackie Fisher / early RN will keep being recast.
This atlas
Aircraft carrier stays a historical file -- type history, not a live order of battle or a method.
Risk
type still political
Carriers remain in service. This page must not be read as a deployment tracker, a strike guide, or a vulnerability cookbook.
The submarine and missile pages are the argument partners.
This page will age; the type's politics will not vanish on a headline.