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USS Langley (CV-1) [r]: First aircraft carrier in the United States Navy, but intended as an experiment rather than for operational use; provided auxiliary services early in WWII, was damaged by Japanese aircraft in February 1942, and scuttled ^[e]
Lexington-class [r]: A two-ship class of aircraft carriers, the first built by the United States Navy for operations rather than experimentation; converted from cancelled battlecruiser hulls ^[e]
Yorktown-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
Essex-class [r]: Ordered in 1940 and beginning delivery in 1943, originally twenty-four ship class was the backbone of U.S. WWII aircraft carrier operation, continuing in a secondary role well into the Cold War; planned later ships built to Ticonderoga (carrier)-class design; many went through postwar SCB-27 and SCB-125 conversion into Oriskany-class ^[e]
Forrestal-class [r]: Originally planned as an eight-ship "supercarrier" class, the first large aircraft carrier built with angled decks and other features specifically intended to operate jet aircraft; improved last four became Kitty Hawk-class ^[e]
USS Enterprise (CVN-65) [r]: First nuclear-propelled aircraft carrier of the United States Navy ^[e]
Nimitz-class [r]: Main class, in the United States Navy, of large aircraft carriers with nuclear propulsion ^[e]

Catapult [r]: A device for converting stored energy into a strong linear force ^[e]
Conventional takeoff and landing [r]: Either an aircraft that requires long runways, or a carrier-capable aircraft that must be catapult-launched and will land with the tailhook & arrested landing system ^[e]
Carrier-capable [r]: Add brief definition or description
Catapult Assisted Take Off But Arrested Recovery [r]: Add brief definition or description
Safety and survivability of naval vessels [r]: Beyond the rules of the Safety of Life at Sea convention, protective measures, for naval vessels, against their own systems as well as enemy fire ^[e]
Short takeoff and vertical landing [r]: A carrier-capable aircraft that takes a short takeoff, without catapulting but possibly a "ski jump" ramp, but lands vertically. ^[e]
Tailhook [r]: Hook on the underside of some aircraft which catches an arresting wire for short distance landings. ^[e]

Carrier Strike Group [r]: In the United States Navy, the group of ships centered around a large aircraft carrier ^[e]
Circular cruising formation [r]: Developed by Chester W. Nimitz, a naval tactical formation in which the high value units (e.g., aircraft carriers and amphibious warfare ships) are in the center of the formation, surrounded by concentric rings of escorts for anti-air warfare, anti-submarine warfare, and early warning (i.e., pickets) ^[e]

Battle of Pearl Harbor [r]: Add brief definition or description
Doolittle Raid [r]: The first U.S. offensive operation in the Pacific during the Second World War. ^[e]
Battle of Midway [r]: Generally considered to be the turning point of the Pacific Theater in the Second World War, a Japanese force intending to capture Midway Island was turned back with the loss of four aircraft carriers, at the cost of one U.S. carrier; it was the last major Japanese offensive of the war ^[e]
Battle of the Coral Sea [r]: Fought in May 1942, the first battle between naval forces built around aircraft carriers, in which the opposing United States and Japanese ships never saw one another; it was a tactical Japanese defeat and strategic U.S. victory ^[e]
Battle of the Philippine Sea [r]: Add brief definition or description
Solomon Islands [r]: Add brief definition or description