Re: US CVs WW2

From: <mreindl@pacbell.net>

> You forgot the Langley (CV-1) which by the time war broke out was
being
used mainly
> to ferry aircraft to overseas bases

Not forgotten, deliberately omitted, as were several Japanese aircraft
ferries and
training carriers that weren't combat capable.

> Also, the CVE's (combustistible, vulnerable, expendable, according to
the
> crews) were built in large lots, converted, IIRC, from merchant hulls

Again, deliberately omitted, as were a number of Japanese Hulls along
the
same lines.