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“I think it’s been about two or three times in the past six months we’ve allegedly been sunk, which we have not been,” Hill told The Associated Press during a recent visit to the carrier. “It is almost comical at this point. They’re attempting to maybe inspire themselves through misinformation, but it doesn’t work on us.”

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I'd say that, while literally true, "carries a single plane" is a real stretch when we're talking about what we think of as aircraft carriers today.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Mostly I just think they're an interesting historical footnote.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The big class carried three.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-400-class_submarine

They were submarine aircraft carriers able to carry three Aichi M6A Seiran aircraft underwater to their destinations.

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It wasn't an I-400 that bombed Oregon, but apparently Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night, Japan's abandoned last-ditch plan to hit with the US with some form of strategic bombing, dropping bubonic plague bombs on population centers in the US, would have used an I-400. I don't know how effective that would have been -- the US had taken preemptive measures to work up anti-biological-warfare stuff earlier in the war -- but at least potentially, that's a considerable amount of hitting power.

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