AIRCRAFT-CARRIERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 September 1942, Page 3

AIRCRAFT-CARRIERS

APPLICATION OF WAR LESSONS NEW CONSTRUCTION IN UNITED < STATES. POSSIBILITIES IN PACIFIC. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 18._ “The sinking of the Yorktown again proves that the pre-war designed huge aircraft-carrier is too vulnerable and therefore outmoded,” writes Major Fielding Eliot in the “Herald-Tribune. He adds: “This does not mean tne end of the carrier*— on the contrary, a hew type of small carrier, with smaller aircraft capacity, will appeal’ in increasing numbers. Furthermore, a special type of heavily-armoured carrier niciy be developed for amphibious warfare , and landing operations.” The “New York Times,” in an editorial, says: “It* is a publicly known fact that the United States is building fifteen new carriers—four of the Alaska class and eleven of the Essex class—of which some were laid down several years ago. Japan does not know how many of these may already have been commissioned.” The “Herald-Tribune” observes: "The high vulnerability of carriers has been amply demonstrated, chiefly at the expense of Japan. If we can look forward to a time when the Pacific Fleet may be able to move into the.. Western Pacific, not only with preponderant surface forces, but also with a carrier fleet, to which the Japanese will have nothing to oppose, the results might well be spectacular.”