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[badwilc0me83190]

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The answer to the question AT HAND is, the Germans had no use for aircraft carriers when they had all of their success in the Battle for the Atlantic. The Kriegsmarine used a fleet of U-boats to control the waves. Their strategy was to starve Britain into submission by cutting off all shipping (which means blowing it to smithereens). This plan might very well have succeeded if Allied Intellegence had not made significant breakthroughs in the codes that the Kriegsmarine used. If Britain had been captured successfully, perhaps then Germany would have had the resources and ports to produce aircraft carriers and use them against the United States.

However, the British don't take crap from anyone, so they never got that far. :clap:

[lilwolf]

Heres a couple of photos that the carrier is supposed to have looked like.

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[thundertaker]

Wyatt Earp wrote: DSwain wrote:
The Germans never got their hands on the French fleet (thankfully); elements of it were interned in various ports, other units joined Free French forces while the Royal Navy attacked the French squadron at Mers-el-Kebir to prevent it falling into enemy hands (a very controversial act). The Bearn - the French Navy's only carrier in WW2 - remained in the French possession of Martinique in the West Indies. The Italians didn't have any carriers at the beginning of the war though they attempted to convert two ocean liners - Aquila and the Sparviero - into carriers; they remained uncompleted at the war's end.

So the French Carrier sat out the war huh? they did not even go under the American or Great Britain's flag?

Isn't it written somewhere in the Royal Navy that if Britain get's nuked off the face of the earth that the skipper has two choices, Keep on fighting under the Brit's flag or put the ship under the USA's command?

There are allegedly secret orders in sealed envelopes to be opened in the event of such a catastrophic event. Obviously, only the PM, certain MoD types and maybe the Queen who know for sure what they contain.
I would say it's more likely they would put themselves under NATO command, rather than directly under US command.
I think in World War II the Royal Navy would have come under Canadian control, as that was were they planned to set up a government-in-exile had the Nazis successfully invaded Britain....

[Beyond The Call of Duty]

My opinion would be that Hitler thought that aircraft carriers were not needed and thus were not built. I think this due to the evidence that Hitler thought the same about the ME-262, Jet Fighters, and Rockets. He never built these "future weapons" because that would cost alot and the normal weapons of war had been doing Hitler so well and felt is unnecessary to spend on weapons that might not work. Because of that aircraft carriers were never built and he had more trust into the U-Boats sinking merchant and military vassals were better than expensive and "unnecessary" aircraft carriers. Also, since Germany has occupied France, Hitler must have thought that he could just send aircraft via bases in Occupied France. But he was wrong. By the time the war turned greatly against Nazi Germany in late 1943, early 1944 and D-Day it would have been too late for Hitler to built new carriers. But still, it's a good question. I guess we might never know :!?: .

[Beyond The Call of Duty]

thundertaker wrote: Wyatt Earp wrote: DSwain wrote:
The Germans never got their hands on the French fleet (thankfully); elements of it were interned in various ports, other units joined Free French forces while the Royal Navy attacked the French squadron at Mers-el-Kebir to prevent it falling into enemy hands (a very controversial act). The Bearn - the French Navy's only carrier in WW2 - remained in the French possession of Martinique in the West Indies. The Italians didn't have any carriers at the beginning of the war though they attempted to convert two ocean liners - Aquila and the Sparviero - into carriers; they remained uncompleted at the war's end.

So the French Carrier sat out the war huh? they did not even go under the American or Great Britain's flag?

Isn't it written somewhere in the Royal Navy that if Britain get's nuked off the face of the earth that the skipper has two choices, Keep on fighting under the Brit's flag or put the ship under the USA's command?

There are allegedly secret orders in sealed envelopes to be opened in the event of such a catastrophic event. Obviously, only the PM, certain MoD types and maybe the Queen who know for sure what they contain.
I would say it's more likely they would put themselves under NATO command, rather than directly under US command.
I think in World War II the Royal Navy would have come under Canadian control, as that was were they planned to set up a government-in-exile had the Nazis successfully invaded Britain....

I agree, today ships would put themselves under NATO command in an event such as that. But in WWII I think that Brit ships would put themselves under Canada or other Commonwealths