See website: USS Altamaha (CVE-18)
The USN permanently lost: 1. Battleships USS Arizona, USS Utah, and USS Oklahoma. 2. Aircraft Carriers USS Lexington (at Coral Sea); USS Yorktown (at Midway); USS Hornet (at Santa Cruz Islands); USS Wasp (at Guadalcanal). 3. LIGHT Aircraft Carrier USS Princeton. 4. Six CVE's, Escort Carriers aka "Jeep Carriers."
The first Nassau (CVE-16) was an escort aircraft carrier in service from 1943 to 1946. The second USS Nassau (LHA-4) is a landing helicopter Assault ship commissioned in 1979 and still active with the fleet today.
We know that President Nixon's Vice President Ford served in the USS Monterey, a CVE (escort aircraft carrier) in the pacific during WWII.
Ford was a WWII USN veteran aboard the CVE (Escort Aircraft Carrier) USS Monterey in the Pacific; he knew war. He backed his commander in chief.
For the USN, one fleet carrier, the USS Lexington and the destroyer USS Sims. The IJN lost a light carrier.
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The USS Eisenhower carrier is the most strongest aircraft carrier in the World.
The Biggest is USS enterprise(cvn-67) and the most massive is USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) comeing close to 104 000t
USS Yorktown.
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USS Alabama
The IJN lost one light carrier, the USN lost one fleet carrier (USS Lexington) and one destroyer (USS Sims).