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Naval Aircraft Factory: Flying boat: Patrol and search and rescue: April 1938 14 Lockheed Lodestar [11] Lockheed: Passenger aircraft Executive transport May 1940 8 NAF N3N-3 [12] Naval Aircraft Factory: Tandem Biplane: Trainer: December 1940 4 Vultee BT-13 Valiant [13] Vultee Aircraft: Tandem Monoplane: Trainer: 1942 11
USN Raids on Kyushu and Inland Sea (16–19 March 1945) UNS Task Force 58 (Spruance/Mitscher) Note: First USN attacks on Inland Sea area, by at least 240 USN aircraft, was made on 19 March 1945. Note: " Task Groups 58.1, 58.3 and 58.4 were to attack Kure, and Task Group 58.2 was to strike Kobe."
Naval Training School (Radio), Naval Reserve Armory, Indianapolis, Indiana Naval Training School (Radio-Special), Bainbridge Island, Port Blakely, Washington Naval Training School (Radio-Women), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
During World War II, the United States Navy purchased two Great Lakes side-wheel paddle steamers and converted them into freshwater aircraft carrier training ships. Both vessels were designated with the hull classification symbol IX and lacked hangar decks , elevators or armaments .
The Naval Air Transport Service or NATS, was a branch of the United States Navy from 1941 to 1948. At its height during World War II , NATS's totaled four wings of 18 squadrons that operated 540 aircraft with 26,000 personnel assigned.
Carrier Aircraft Service Units (CASU) were United States Navy units formed during World War II for the Pacific War to support naval aircraft operations. From 1942 to 1946, 69 Carrier Aircraft Service Units were formed to repair and maintain aircraft. The first unit was deployed to Naval Station Pearl Harbor.
Naval historians such as Evan Mawdsley, Richard Overy, and Craig Symonds concluded that World War II's decisive victories on land could not have been won without decisive victories at sea. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Naval battles to keep shipping lanes open for combatant's movement of troops, guns, ammunition, tanks, warships, aircraft, raw materials ...
The United States Navy (like the IJN) had followed Alfred Thayer Mahan's emphasis on concentrated groups of battleships as the main offensive naval weapons. [2] The loss of the battleships at Pearl Harbor forced Admiral Ernest J. King , the head of the Navy, to place a primary emphasis on the small number of aircraft carriers.