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by JumpCrisscross 22 days ago
And ships. We ended the war with (EDIT: practically) none of the carriers we started out with.
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Famously, of course, not at all the case, with Enterprise, Saratoga, and Ranger all surviving. Yes, losses of pre-war carriers were severe (Lexington, Yorktown, Hornet, and Wasp).