flattops

If the 'flattops' do not enter service, they make no sense and cancelling them can save £15 billion.

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However, the US Navy is run by carrier admirals who are as loathe to junk their flattops as were battleship admirals early in World War II.

Eric Margolis: The North Pacific Is No Longer an American Lake Eric Margolis 2011

But the plan assumed that the U.S. flattops would be idling at Pearl Harbor as their invasion began.

The Beginning of the End James D. Hornfischer 2011

The China Post reports that at 67,000 tons, the carrier is two-thirds the size of the 100,000 ton American Nimitz-class flattops.

Peter Winter: The Interwoven Era: The US, China and its New Aircraft Carrier Peter Winter 2011

Hellcat fighters prepare to launch from USS Randolph, one of sixteen flattops engaged in the first carrier raids against the Japanese home islands in February 1945.

Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

Since carriers were still an unknown quantity, and not deemed major combatants, the conferees allowed conversion of battleships and battle cruisers to flattops.

Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

In my senior high school class picture, with one exception, the boys all wear their hair combed back or close-cropped in crewcuts or flattops, and none of it is long.

Androgyny Steve Perry 2010

Riding those sixteen flattops off Honshu were 1,187 airplanes: 895 Hellcat and Corsair fighters, 201 Avenger torpedo planes, and ninety-one Helldiver dive bombers.

Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

In my senior high school class picture, with one exception, the boys all wear their hair combed back or close-cropped in crewcuts or flattops, and none of it is long.

Archive 2010-03-01 Steve Perry 2010

Riding those sixteen flattops off Honshu were 1,187 airplanes: 895 Hellcat and Corsair fighters, 201 Avenger torpedo planes, and ninety-one Helldiver dive bombers.

Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010