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Navy carrier production powers Pacific advance
The article notes that after heavy losses early in the Pacific war, U.S. shipyards rebuilt carrier strength. In twelve months four pre-war carriers were sunk, a fifth damaged, and a sixth kept in the Atlantic. New flat-tops then sailed from Pearl Harbor to raid Wake and Marcus Islands, enabling planned attacks on key Japanese bases.
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