War Machines The U.S. Planned to Use On Japan

USS Midway

A veteran of the war in Vietnam and the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the first assignment of the USS Midway (CV-41) would have been part of the campaign against the Japanese home islands had Tokyo not thrown in the towel. The lead ship of the Midway-class and the first of the post war “super-carriers”, the vessel was commissioned just one week after Japan’s surrender. Had the fighting continued, the Midway would have carried as many as 100 fighters and attack aircraft into action along the Japanese coast, and sailed with the more than 40 other Allied carriers and flat-tops slated to take part in the massive invasion.