We had them TWENTY years before that.
you are correct sir. I was just thinking effective combat operations that are known by everyone that isn’t in the service or a history buff. When I think of WWI, certain things come to mind... trenches, mud, machine guns, early tanks, poison gas, that sort of stuff.. WWII I think of the blitz, Point du Hoc, Iwo Jima, atomic bombs, carrier battles, Russian front.... I was just pointing out that we’ve had carriers for a long long time and that is one complicated floating city with an airport and nuclear reactor on board.