aircraft carrier

• “As a result of the conference the next day, Cross thumbed a ride in a Gladiator and was flown out to the aircraft carrier Glorious, where he proposed to her captain, G. d'Oyly-Hughes, D.S.O.,”

  The HurricaneStory

• “This action took place in September of 1942, when a still larger convoy of twenty-nine ships was accompanied by an aircraft carrier and a number of c.a.m. ships.”

  The HurricaneStory

• “The commanding officer of the Kyokuto Maru placed aboard the aircraft carrier HIMJS Kaga, see Communication Summary for October 27, 1941, loc. cit.”

  Simon & Schuster: DAY OF DECEIT

• “He had twenty-seven destroyers and the small aircraft carrier Engadine carrying three seaplanes: fifty ships in all.”

  Castles of Steel

• “Next to the USS Forrestal aircraft carrier where we made the most dramatic entrance coming up on the plane elevator to find 4,000 troops lined up on the flight deck.”

  Simon & Schuster: Barbara Bush

• “The aircraft carrier HIMJS Taiyo was identified as the Kasuga Maru in the prewar Station H intercepts.”

  Simon & Schuster: DAY OF DECEIT

• “As will be seen from the telegram, several of the ships were French — the battleship Dunkerque, aircraft carrier Bearn and three cruisers forming Force L, the two cruisers of Force M and the battleship Strasbourg working with the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier Hermes in Force N.”

  Graf Spee

• “President George W. Bush, dressed in aviator gear and standing under a “Mission Accomplished” banner on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln, May 2, 200327”

  Simon & Schuster: Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War in Iraq

• “The Kasuga Maru, a luxury passenger liner of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Known as the NYK Line or Japanese Steamship Company was converted to an aircraft carrier during 1941 and that fall was commissioned as a 17,000-ton flattop.”

  Simon & Schuster: DAY OF DECEIT

• “The Admiralty's plan was that the battle cruiser Renown, with the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, should seal off the narrow neck of the Atlantic between West Africa and South America; at the same time the”

  Graf Spee

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