• Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    To be precise, we've lost 16 aircraft carriers.

    One was scuttled after being used for a target

    One was scuttled "after being used for a target" (Note: This one (Saratoga iirc) was parked in Bikini Atoll for a hint at what the test was)

    One was scuttled to make an artificial reef

    ...and 13 were destroyed in WWII, the most recent in 1946. Once by a German U-boat, and every other instance was either by the Japanese or other American ships (scuttling after crippled by Japanese so they could claim it wasn't destroyed in combat.)