Only two nations have ever destroyed a U.S. aircraft carrier. Japan destroyed several during World War II, while Germany sank ...

These advantages meant that battleships and battlecruisers were repeatedly sunk by carrier-based aircraft ... battlecruisers then hastily left the scene without picking up survivors.

by virtue of its smashing feat of sinking four Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) aircraft carriers—the Kaga, Akagi, Sōryū, and Hiryū—during the Battle of Midway in June 1942, one of the most ...

The ex-aircraft carrier ... were the last group of carriers to be powered by fossil fuels, which were replaced by the Navy's Nimitz-class nuclear-powered flattops. The name honored the president slain ...

Furthermore, Iranian media has fantasized for years about sinking an aircraft carrier. In the country's state-controlled media, the massive ships are often seen as targets ripe for sinking.

There is no excuse for an aircraft carrier being sunk either by gunfire or submarine attack, and any carrier so sunk was poorly operated at the time. So wrote Annapolis-trained, 34-year-old Lieut.