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Aircraft carrier (1950): Inchon air · 402

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The aircraft carrier grew from 1918-22 experiments (HMS Argus, Hosho, Langley) into the Pacific war's decisive capital ship. Taranto (1940) and Pearl Harbor showed the type's reach; Midway showed that carriers could destroy each other without sighting a battleship. This page is that history -- not a deck-cycle or navigation manual.

The US Essex class and then Forrestal-to-Nimitz "supercarriers" made the type a political object: a sovereign airfield that can sit off a coast. Britain's retreat from large-deck aviation (CVA-01 cancelled, Invincible-class VTOL, then Queen Elizabeth) is a fiscal-political story. Soviet/Russian and later Chinese carriers are a different design culture (ski-jump, then catapult experiments).

English memory is Midway films and a city-sized US deck. Korean memory is Inchon's carrier air (1950) and later alliance decks in nearby seas -- plus a domestic debate about aviation ships that this page will not umpire as a live programme. TechShift is high; intensity is that of a type, not a war.

The timeline keeps year, place, and what moved. If “Inchon air” is the movement, the figure is 09 and the year is 1950.1950

Figures to keep

Year of the action
1950
Figure in the record
09
Action
Aircraft carrier
Line of the front
Inchon air

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