AHC: WW2 "Super Carriers"

I love the Alaska class even though they were out of date by 1945, if only they would have enter between 1941-1943 then they would hace provided support to any carrier.

Now about a súper carrier, I would say the Midway class for the US and Malta class forma UK.
 
If You call a huge investment of time and effort in going as far as carrying out feasibility and proof of concept trials, as casting aside quickly then yes!
 
The problem with launching big twin engine planes off a carrier is their wingspan.
You need at least 20 feet clear of the narrowest part (next to the island).
 
Don't have Aircraft Carrier tonnage count as much under the Washington treaty as well as Germany being allowed Aircraft carriers of any tonnage under the Versailles treaty.
Given Hitler's ego big carriers would get built and Goering wouldn't get the way of Hitler's ego if he knew what was good for him.
Hitler gets super high and orders the navy to build something like this.

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The actual ship turns out just as badly built as this crappy model.
 
Considering the bitter fight between the US Army Air Corps and Navy over airpower and the tacit fiefdoms carved out, I suspect the best bet for a "super carrier" would be the desire to put medium bombers at sea. The USN focused on surging its aircraft so the carrier grew to a size that could launch more aircraft faster, part of this led down the path to smaller carriers so each could launch simultaneously, thus the smaller Ranger (CV-4), but we saw that stall and morph into the Escort carrier classes. The theory needs to shape up faster that bigger was better for fleet operations. That might get us at least design work. My understanding was that the Army got the Navy to be forbidden long range land based planes, thus the Catalina, but I read that the B-17 was supposed to be the biggest Army aircraft too. Had that further delayed anything like the B-29 or worse the slightly better B-24, then one might see a real need to build a "Bomber Carrier." Until we take Saipan and Tinian, the USA has no real means to conduct bombing over Japan, Doolittle's raid becomes the template rather than the footnote. So one gets Super Carriers in a world where the B-29 is too late or not at all? The USN surging PBJ-1H (Carrier B-25s) to strike Japan? Might get that big fleet action sooner for the Battleship fans.
 
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