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https://www.quora.com/How-many-active-ships-did-the-US-Navy-have-at-the-end-of-World-War-II-and-what-types-were-they-by-category


11 posted on 12/07/2021 8:55:41 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Six months after Pearl Harbor, with only three carriers left (one, the Yorktown, had nearly had it, but was repaired in just eight days, rushed back to action with a valiant crew), planes with inferior flight radius, air-launched torpedoes that were POS, but with codebreaking guile, superior intel, and justifiably legendary commanders going for it, at the Battle of Midway, American warriors obliterated the Japanese’ superior reach.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=midway+lecture


14 posted on 12/07/2021 9:03:43 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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