Naval Legends: USS Midway. The first U.S. aircraft carrier too big to transit the Panama Canal

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a pioneer in the jet age the uss

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was a engineering marvel when commissioned right at the end of world war ii, it took five years to design 90 tons of plans and only 17 months to build the idea of ​​building a marvel like this was suggested by the navy ship bureau As early as 1940, for American admirals this was a dream: an

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that would be as robust as a battleship and would have at least 120 aircraft on board during the course of the war.

The role of carrier-based aviation increased and the admiral's dream became more real in the fall of 1943. While the Essex-class heavy aircraft carriers were already fighting in the Pacific, the United States began construction of a super aircraft carrier this has always been a dream the chinese built the wall the egyptians built the pyramids the japanese built yamato and the americans built midway commissioned in september 2015 The tenth aircraft carrier of 1945, Midway, was the lead ship of its class. She was similar to the USS Essex in terms of design, but she had twice the displacement and a much higher price.

Look, you have invested money in this idea, but the war shows that something is wrong, something is not right. the way it should be, something can be done better, so these funds are wasted and new investments are needed and remember that it is being built halfway during the war, which means that the ship is constantly updated for dimensions , equipment, weapons support systems and it turned out that one midway cost the same as two essex class aircraft carriers, of course the following midway class ships were cheaper, but the

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one was practically made of gold both in terms of money and of technical solutions implemented specifications of the aircraft carrier average length about 295 meters beam 41 meters total displacement With a capacity of approximately 60,000 tons, the power plant consisted of four turbines and twelve boilers that produced two hundred and twelve thousand horsepower and allowed the huge aircraft carrier reach a speed of 33 knots compared to its predecessors.

Halfway along it had impressive armor; no American aircraft carrier had ever been protected. very good flight deck 89 millimeters conning tower 89 to 165 millimeters to improve the stability of the ship its armor belt was different on port and starboard 193 and 178 millimeters thick respectively armament the ship was equipped with the most advanced versatile guns ever used in aircraft carriers these were 18 127-millimeter 16 guns in individual mounts designed for Montana-class battleships. The carrier also had 21 quadruple 40-millimeter Bofors guns and 20 coaxial 20-millimeter Oerlikon guns midway she was designed to carry 136 aircraft such as the Vought F4U Corsair Grumman F6F Hellcat fighters. curtis sb2c helldiver fighters dive bombers' cruising range of 15,000 miles at 15 knots midcourse was much better than all other US Navy attack aircraft carriers, such as the USS Essex and USS Saratoga, which distinguished as a new type of battle aircraft carrier and only lost the war for one week many of the lessons learned from that war were incorporated here halfway this was the

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American aircraft carrier with a steel flight deck instead of a deck wooden flight deck the advantages of a steel armored deck were evident, it minimized the impact of direct hits and fires while the damage control group could take care of the rest we are here in the damage control center one of the most important parts of the ship right in the middle of the ship this is where emergency decisions were made when there was a fire when it could have occurred There has been a short circuit, this is where the sailors called the damage control officer and the sailors here had to make key decisions using phones to communicate with the rest of the ship, but that could only happen if these young sailors were adept at the mid-plan plans that constantly changed as the ship was modified and modernized, they would provide the information to the controlling officer of damage to make key decisions and then I would call the captain 14 decks on the bridge to keep him informed of a very, very important place.

Here in the US, making aircraft carrier survivability as high as possible was not just the paranoia of American shipbuilders. Halfway through the war, the Japanese air force had destroyed several American aircraft carriers, so halfway through she turned out to be a truly unsinkable ship that could hold out. any raid and still be able to fight even when she is severely damaged, quite often you will hear an incompetent opinion: the USS Midway was designed as an armored ship based on the experience of kamikaze attacks, but that is completely incorrect. The kamikazes arrived after four years of war and Midway was designed.

In 1940, when the United States of America had not even joined the war, it could halfway withstand a hole in its hull 300 feet long below the waterline and still be able to operate due to The way it was designed, there wouldn't be much flooding and it could continue its mission, so this was a ship that was a true pioneer when it came to weaponry and being able to withstand enemy attacks after it was halfway Commissioned in September 1945, she trained for five months in the Caribbean and at the end of February 1946 she became the flagship of the aircraft carrier division of the US Atlantic Fleet (now USS Midway) and thousands of its sailors had to serve in the harsh conditions of the North Atlantic to repair an aircraft carrier for a month at sea, it took a week to load it with all kinds of supplies, so there would be tugs coming to the carrier all the time and unloading all kinds Of things halfway there was a floating city on the sea with a population of 4,500.

Imagine 4,500 sailors living within three football fields 250 feet apart in nests of beds. so throughout the ship in a very difficult environment there are three tall, solid steel ships with no air conditioning there is no privacy privacy in fact was a distant memory aboard the USS Midway and yet these are the living conditions that were necessary to 4,000 men how do you take care of 4,500 men when it comes to feeding them well? You need 200 cooks. 10 tons of food a day and you need to prepare 13,500 meals every day. This is one of six Midway restaurants or galleries where that took place. uh the cooks work here 20 hours a day, seven days a week to make sure that 4,500 19 year olds were well fed, so the avarov was the most modern ship in the greek navy and even among the navies of all opposing countries explain the reasons why it became the Greek flagship is clear, as was common in many fleets at the time, the relationship between officers and enlisted was not always idyllic, the cup of patience was It overflowed, however, when this was served to the crew for lunch, naval headquarters ordered that Avrov be scuttled on the premises. which was too old to have military value and which seemed unmeritorious to give the enemy the prize of the hero of the Balkan wars abroad survived five wars and was originally financed by donations from private Greek citizens and 70 years later was rebuilt again by donations from the public welcome to Athens well no city would be complete even at sea if it did not have a hospital good halfway there it had a hospital 18 beds two surgeons about 40 cormen with full capacities here on the ship there were two operating rooms and x x-ray room a pharmacy intensive care unit 18 beds for post-operative patients so that sailors aboard Midway had a full range of medical services especially important when it came to accidents and injuries on the flight deck there were many such incidents aboard Midway especially when began to receive its first jet aircraft in the 1940s what is a jet aircraft is basically a flying shell there is little knowledge about the flight system about the behavior of the jet engine in the air and about landing especially on board a aircraft carrier suppose a plane landed on the deck of essex and exploded, the aircraft carrier would be out of action and here we have midway with an armored deck, that's why the midway class aircraft carriers became the platform to test the first jet aircraft of the us navy midway and her sister ships coral c and franklin d roosevelt became a pioneer in the jet age on july 21, 1946, lieutenant commander james davidson made the first jet landing on the deck of franklin d roosevelt flying a Prototype demonstrated the sights of ship-based missile weaponry having missed the second world war the intermediate class aircraft carriers arrived just in time for the nuclear missile race so many things had to be changed midway to accommodate the jets and get rid of most of propeller airplanes.

The cannons around the edge of the ship were removed to reduce weight because they were no longer needed for a second. In the mid-1950s an angular platform was added to the ship so that there would be a landing area and a take-off area to accommodate the fastest and most powerful jets, catapults and arresting gear cables, all of which had to be modernized. and reinforced to accommodate jet aircraft, so when you are aboard halfway you are aboard 47 years of naval aviation from the beginning of the jet era in the late 1940s to 1991, in In 1955 it was decided to modernize halfway to make it suitable for moderns.

The modernization cost almost as much as her construction in the 1940s and took even longer, but the political situation in the world at the time required ever-increasing strike forces midway and her sister ships became the key players. of the so-called aircraft carrier diplomacy. Regularly visiting regions that were in conflict at the time, many people are surprised to learn that for most aircraft carriers, on average, they only spend about 10 percent of their entire life in actual combat, their primary function being deterrence, but if combat is necessary, that is Certainly, what is an aircraft carrier for and for the United States midway, which was primarily during Vietnam, deployed Vietnam several times in the mid-1960s and then again in the early 24-hour flight operations, combat operations took place right here on the flight deck.

Midway has several distinctions during the Vietnam War its airmen shot down the first enemy aircraft of the war in the mid-1960s and the last enemy aircraft of the war in the early 1970s, so the USS Midway played a important role in vietnam both in combat and later from a humanitarian point of view later in the 1970s the uss midway completed its mission in vietnam with a rescue operation early in the morning of april 29, 1975 the us command organized a urgent evacuation of more than 7,000 citizens of the United States and others Helicopters from the besieged countries of Saigon, bringing people from the roof of the US embassy, ​​landed every minute on the deck of the aircraft carrier, and then After dropping off their passengers, they were returning to Saigon in the afternoon, a small single-engine Cessna appeared on the aircraft carrier with its landing lights on.

With low clouds, rain and winds, he tried to land on the middle deck several times but without success the ship could notestablish radio contact with the aircraft, but on the third approach the pilot threw a cover with a note: can you move the helicopter? On the other side I can land on your runway I can fly one more hour We have enough time to move Please rescue me Major Buang's wife and five children Larry Chambers The captain of the ship understood that to save the refugees he had to make the only possible decision he could have serious consequences for his military career regardless of the risk of being discovered.

Marshall Chambers ordered the crew to push several helicopters overboard and turn the carrier to facilitate the Cessna's landing. Several minutes later, the plane stopped on the deck accompanied. by the chairs of the eldest of the ship's crew, Boang, his children, including a one-year-old baby, and his wife, emerged unharmed from the Midway-class aircraft carrier and, specifically, Midway played a leading role in the development of naval weaponry , was laid down as a secondary ship. with a powerful aircraft wing, however, it became the most powerful ship in the US Navy. Its further progress made it crucial to the development of aircraft carrier aviation, as a result, these were the intermediates that were They became prototypes for all US aircraft carriers that were built later in 1991.

Halfway through it participated in the Gulf War and it was its last combat mission. The last entry in the carrier's service record was another humanitarian operation in which it helped the people of the Philippines and the personnel of the US naval base in Subic Bay after the eruption of the Pinatubo volcano on the island of Luzon halfway served for 47 years the airline with the longest service in the twentieth century. More innovations occurred in that time, including the angled cockpit testing autopilot technology that we all benefit from today, it was something that really laid the foundation for future generations of aircraft carriers that began with the forest in 1955.

USS Midway remained in the public eye throughout her career but even after being decommissioned she continues to attract people's attention. Her mission now is to preserve the history of the United States Navy and share it with anyone who visits her in San diego california so that