[Paladin2]

"all that was left in the way of aircraft carriers after the bombing at Pearl Harbor. "

Uh, no carriers where hit at PH.

[mkjessup]

No, but much of the U.S. Pacific fleet was destroyed at Pearl, the carriers survived only because they were at sea.

[calex59]

"all that was left in the way of aircraft carriers after the bombing at Pearl Harbor. " Uh, no carriers where hit at PH.

What he should have said was what was left of Aircraft Carriers after the battle of the Coral sea. We never had many carriers to start with, but we did have some in the Atlantic as well as the Pacific. This guy also forgot to mention that the US sunk the 4th Japanese carrier the next day, so the final score was Japs 1 America 4. The York Town was already damaged and the Japanese thought they had sunk two carriers when in reality it was only one.