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Why was the aircraft carrier invented?
The limitations of early aircraft included very little fuel for over-water operations far from land, which included searches that could be very time-consuming. The first solution was to use seaplanes, and later to launch these aircraft from large ships, such as the scout aircraft aboard battleships. But true aircraft carriers could travel to any location and serve as a floating airfield from which to launch aerial missions, in peacetime and wartime. - The first aircraft flown from a ship actually preceded the Wright Brothers, but was uncontrolled and had no pilot. Samuel Langley launched his steam-powered Aerodrome Number Five off a houseboat in the Potomac River on May 6, 1896. In 1903, a piloted version failed to fly. - Aviation pioneer Eugene Ely was the first to take off from a ship (USS Birmingham) in 1910. He became the first to land on a ship when he landed on a platform on the cruiser USS Pennsylvania in 1911. - In December 1911, the French Navy ship Foudre became the first seaplane carrier, but no planes took off or landed aboard the ship itself. - The British built the first dedicated aircraft carrier in 1914, the HMS Ark Royal.
Was the Bismarck the best ship in world war 2?
To the British yes, because the "greater the foe, the greater the glory." In reality, the greatest ship in WWII was the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV6). She was the most decorated US warship in history and was far more powerful than any battleship.
How far can a nuclear bomb go?
It can't go any where it can travel in an aeroplane.
What countries did Hitler travel to?
As far as i know :9. He invaded poland, Denmark, Norway, France, Netherlands, Belguim, austria, czechoslavakia, and russia
Were there sirens in World War 1?
There was little danger of air raids in the US during WWII. Aircraft of that era lacked the range to fly from Europe or Japan, drop bombs, and return home. The only possibility was a raid by carrier aircraft. Germany had no aircraft carriers. Japan did, but they had very short range compared to US carriers and sending them as far as Hawaii to bomb Pearl Harbor was a huge risk the Japanese were bitterly divided over taking. There was never any real possibility the Japanese were going to make carrier aircraft raids on the west coast, though authorities in the US could not know this and worried over the possibility. Most sizable US towns got air raid sirens in the early 1950s, after the Cold War was going strong, the Russians had nuclear weapons and long-range bombers to deliver them. I live in a fairly sizable city, which had about 60,000 people at the time. Five air raid sirens were enough that they could be heard all over town. They used to test them every Tuesday at noon. Its a spooky sound. They quit the weekly tests in the early 70s, but left the sirens in place. Several years later, early one Saturday someone hit the wrong button and turned on the air raid sirens. They used to say that there might be twenty minutes from the time the sirens went off until the missiles arrived. I heard the siren, figured I couldn't get anywhere far enough away to make any difference, and decided to stay in bed and die right there.
