Talk:Aircraft carrier operations during World War II

Overview of article series regarding aircraft carrier operations

This article is intended to be the main article of a total of six related ones focused upon aircraft carrier operations during World War II. The original article was broken down into six separate ones due to length of the subject matter.

It was originally intended that all of these articles be completed before going live on Wikipedia, but the pandemic makes it prudent to go live with what is available now and add the rest of the material as it is completed, COVID willing. The planned articles are outlined below.

1st (main) article
Aircraft carrier operations during World War II
   1 Ascendancy of aircraft carriers
   2 Functions performed by aircraft carriers
   3 Aircraft carrier contribution To Allied victory
   4 Atlantic theater carrier operations
        [including link to separate article #2]
   5 Pacific theater carrier operations
        [including link to separate article #3]
   6 Lists of aircraft carriers operational during the war
        [including link to separate article #4]
   7 Lists of carrier operations during World War II
        [including link to separate article #5]
   8 Design and capability of carriers during World War II
        [including link to separate article #6]
   9 Carrier air squadrons and crews
   10 Carrier aircraft
   11 Carrier and carrier aircraft weapon systems
   12 Footnotes
   13 Principal sources
   14 Citations
   15 See also

2nd article
Atlantic theater aircraft carrier operations during World War II
   1 Atlantic war overview (1939-1945)
   2 Carriers in the Atlantic (1939-1945)
   3 Commanders, organizations, and strategies (1939 - 1945)
   4 Battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945)
   5 Battle of the Mediterranean (1939-1943)
   6 Allied Invasion of North Africa (1942)
   7 Allied invasion of Italy (1943)
   8 Allied invasions of France (1944)

3rd article
Pacific theater aircraft carrier operations during World War II
   1 Pacific war overview (1930-1945)
   2 Carriers in the Pacific theater (1939-1945)
   3 Commanders, organizations, and strategies (1939-1945)
   4 Japanese invasions of China (1931-1945)
   5 Japanese invasion of French Indochina (1940)
   6 Japanese rapid expansion of empire (1941-1942)
   7 Allied battle for East Africa and the Indian Ocean (1940-1945)
   8 Turning points in the Pacific war (1942)
   9 Allies take the strategic initiative (1942-1944)
   10 Allied drive across the central Pacific (1943-1944)
   11 Allied domination and victory (1944-1945)

4th Article
Lists of aircraft carriers operational during World War II
   1 American carriers
   2 British carriers
   3 Japanese carriers
   4 Other countries carriers
   5 Carriers sunk
   6 Carriers damaged
   7 Carriers operational at the end of each month

5th Article
Lists of Carrier operations during World War II
   1 Named operations involving carriers
   2 Carriers at specific battles, invasions, and raids

6th Article
Design and capability of aircraft carriers operational during World War II
   1 Fleet carriers
   2 Escort carriers
   3 Other carriers

In addition to completing the text, appropriate pictures and maps will be added and some tables need improved formatting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bryantbob (talk • contribs) 19:47, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

I have submitted text and tables I drafted about aircraft carriers to both Wikipedia and the World War II Database. (See, for example, a summary article at https://ww2db.com/other.php?other_id=49 In some cases, some of the text I submit to the two websites is identical. It is not copied from one website to the other but comes directly from me. I am posting this information on this Talk page in case a contributor/editor comes across verbatim submissions and suspects it is plagiarized. It is not. I draft the text for both websites. The text I submit does not include changes from other contributor/editors. I claim no copyright for it. Text I draft for both websites may be freely copied and used by anyone. I believe my submissions are in keeping with all the policies of both websites. After communicating my intentions to make submissions on a non-exclusive basis to a contributor/editor at World War II Database, I received the following reply:

“You said, ‘My only requirement for providing content for World War II Database is that doing so does not in any way constrain my using the same material for use elsewhere.’  No problem.  WW2db has some concerns about how WW2db content is used elsewhere but the contributed material belongs to the contributor.  Besides, no one can copyright the facts of history anyway; an author can copyright the precise text he uses to describe it, but the underlying factual information cannot be copyrighted.  If you know a thing from history, you can write about it or talk about it as many times as you want in as many places as you want and nobody can say “Boo” about it.  Even if WW2db could limit your use of your material elsewhere, we wouldn’t want to.  The important thing here is the story – and the World War II story is an important one – so if the story gets told here and there and also some other place, we see that as a good thing.” — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bryantbob (talk • contribs) 17:14, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Removed citation after fixing errors

Removed citation after eliminating all error messages by adding titles to citations, removing unused footnotes, and modifying references for footnotes. Bryantbob (talk) 18:14, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Removed addition of two Canadian fleet carriers

I reverted the addition of two Canadian fleet carriers to the table. During the war, two British escort (not fleet) carriers (HMS Nabob (D77) and HMS Puncher (D79)) had Canadian crews but remained under British control and had British aircrews. These two carriers are included with the count for Britain's escort carriers. This information is included in an article Lists of aircraft carriers operational during World War II that is part of this series about aircraft carrier operations. No mention of Canadian carriers is made in "No Higher Purpose- The Official Operational History of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War, 1939-1943 Volume II, Part 1", by Douglas et. al.Bryantbob (talk) 18:25, 4 December 2021 (UTC)