Sentences with phrase «sinking aircraft carrier»

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All four of Japan's heaviest aircraft carriers, Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu were sunk.

Japanese losses were high — three out of the nine aircraft carriers were sunk, as well as two oil tankers, 395 carrier - based planes, and over 2,000 sailors and airmen.

Two U.S. carrier groups are very likely to be able to secure the strait and establish air superiority, and even if the Chinese were able to sink both Carriers, the aircraft would just relocate to Taiwan, effectively tripling the Taiwanese Air Force's size.

In 1951, the USS Independence aircraft carrier was loaded up with explosives, towed off the coast of San Francisco, California, and sunk.

In a rare assessment of a training exercise, researchers found in 2010 that fish and sea mammals living near the USS Oriskany — an aircraft carrier sunk for training in 2006 — had raised levels of PCBs.