Second Best Carrier in Pac War

[madmickey]

The first is an obvious choice what are people opinion on what comes after the Big E. I am not talking about ship design but performance in battle.

[Greyshaft]

Typhoid Mary?

[2ndACR]

Shokaku/Zuikaku

[Alikchi2]

Gonna have to say Zuikaku. Last Pearl Harbor CV to sink.

[madflava13]

Saratoga

[Mike Scholl]

ORIGINAL: madmickey

The first is an obvious choice what are people opinion on what comes after the Big E.

Another, bigger "E".....The ESSEX and all her sisters.....Nothing else comes close.

[Hornblower]

My Heart seconds that...[&o] ... I'd have to say Yorktown, or Zuikaku... Then for Bangs sake----> Essex's

[Drex]

Where does the Langley come in? She never gets respect.

[Hornblower]

the end she met, wasn't what her legacy deserved... Excellent point...

[Tankerace]

Hrm.... I'd have to say Franklin. She took one Hell of a beating (Far worse than any Japanese carrier that didn't sink) and she friggin sailed to NYC on her own power.

[33Vyper]

American....Lady Lex or the Sara
Jap... Taiho
UK.....none they were all crap

[Ron Saueracker]

Ark Royal would have been better suited to the Pacific had she not been wasted in the Med. A little harsh saying RN CVs were crap.[:'(] Shinano...that was crap. Bearn...holy crap.

[mlees]

holy crap

? As in , blessed poop?[:D]

Well, as stated earlier, Big-E earned 20 battle stars in WWII. The Essex won 13. I'm not sure, but I think that about does it for second place.

Biggest disapointment: USS Ranger (CV4) earned 2 battle stars. Sigh. I served on USS Ranger (CV61), so that kinda saddens me...

Don't sell those Brit carriers short, they were built with a different operating theatre in mind: mainly LBA infested European waters. I guess they could have scrapped the older ones (Hermes/Eagle/Glorious/Courageous/Furious) to free up treaty tonnage for newer hulls, but the fiscally tight parliament wasn't gonna go for that. Look at the Taranto raid: 21 Swordfish cripple or sink three BB's. The Brit CV's gave good service in the Pacific in '45, their armored decks almost Kamikazi-proof.

[Moquia]

Im also facinated with Lexington and Saratoga. Carriers with 8" guns!

[String]

ORIGINAL: Moquia

Im also facinated with Lexington and Saratoga. Carriers with 8" guns!

Most of the converted carriers had large guns, iirc Kaga and Akagi also had a battery of 8" guns.

[Moquia]

ORIGINAL: String

Most of the converted carriers had large guns, iirc Kaga and Akagi also had a battery of 8" guns.

Yeah I know, but they are but ugly (like most Japanese carriers)[:D].

[EUBanana]

/Glorious/Courageous/Furious)

Curious, Spurious and Outrageous.
[:D]

[Tiornu]

"iirc Kaga and Akagi also had a battery of 8" guns."
Ah, but they didn't! Their guns were only 7.9in!
Bwaahaahaa!

[Tankerace]

ORIGINAL: Moquia

Im also facinated with Lexington and Saratoga. Carriers with 8" guns!

What about Furious then when she was completed? A flying off deck forward and a single 18" gun turret in the rear... Now THAT's a combination. [:D]

[Bongo]

My second farovorite, after the Big E, would have to be Yorktown (CV-5).