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I read somewhere that by law the Captain and I am assuming the executive officer of an aircraft carrier must have pilots. That makes sense however by the end of ww2 the US navy had a good 150 carriers. The prewar US Navy aviation was on the small side eight to be precise and three of them the Wasp, the Ranger and the Langley were on the small side - a small number of aircraft. So the question is between providing senior officers for captains, execs and `pure' aviation posts how did they find the numbers of experienced officers to go around?
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