Killing Carriers

[chico20854]

The "Cliff Notes" draft version of the USN carrier force we've worked up with Matt Wiser:

CV-41 Midway: sustained damage in summer 1997, escorts were chasing down Sov raider/sub & Midway sunk by Sov SSN in Central Pacific.
CV-43 Coral Sea: operated in North Sea providing air support in Baltic, struck by Su-24 toss-bombed tac nuke 1997 & lost off Denmark.
CV-59 Forrestal: severely damaged by Soviet combined-arms strike in Vestfjord during Battle of Norwegian Sea December 96, burned out & abandoned in Bodo.
CV-60 Saratoga: participated in Norwegian Sea & Kola battles, damaged by Oscar July 97, nuked in drydock Philadelphia Nov 97.
CV-61 Ranger: Cam Ranh raid destroed air wing, served as Pacflt training carrier in 1997 (remnants of air wing to Lincoln), in port for liberty Thanksgiving 1997 when damaged by Tsunami in SF Bay induced by TDM strikes on north bay refineries, then caught in firestorm following strikes & burned out
CV-62 Independence: disabled and forced to anchor at Muscat, Oman. lost two props and a rudder from a Type-65 torpedo from an Sierra-class SSN, and was lucky to make it to port. One elevator is knocked out (by the AS-4 hit) and one rudder is jammed, along with a prop shaft blown out by the Type-65 torpedo (the ship's Nixie torpedo decoy worked-barely). Some internal flooding and shock damage as well. The ship was also damaged by BACKFIRE-launched AS-4 after anchoring and is not currently seaworthy, 18 months to repair...
CV-63 Kitty Hawk: anchored off Hilo (harbor to shallow to dock), no fuel.
CV-64 Constellation: homeported in Japan, sunk at 2nd Kamchakta.
CVN-65 Enterprise: participated in Battle of Norwegian Sea, damaged in Kola op, in Belfast.
CV-66 America: participated in ops vs Greece, Italy & Libya 1997, damaged in Op Carthaginian by Italian mines & subs, docked in Sigonella & abandoned when US withdrew from Sicily.
CV-67 John F. Kennedy: damaged by Soviet mine at outset of war in Western Med, repaired in Gibraltar in time for Carthaginian, operated in Med until arrived in Split, Croatia in mid 98 with minor mine damage (lost 1 shaft). Declared for Civgov with rest of forces in Jugoslavia.
CVN-68 Nimitz: damaged at 2nd Kamchachta, repaired at Bremerton, active there.
CVN-69 Dwight D. Eisenhower: Participated in Battle of Norwegian Sea & Kola op, holds Iceland 98-00, withdrawn to Little Creek, covers TF34 as part of Op Omega.
CVN-70 Carl Vinson: overwhelmed by Soviet ASMs from 200+ Backfires at outset of war while operating solo in Yellow Sea.
CVN-71 Theodore Roosevelt: participated in Battle of Norwegian Sea & Kola op, supports HM Govt in UK, withdrawn to Norfolk & NJ as part of Op Omega.
CVN-72 Abraham Lincoln: participated in Cam Ranh raid, damaged by 2 Soviet ASM, in Bremerton w/o port waist catapult, arrestor gear.
CVN-73 George Washington: overwhelmed by Soviet ASMs from 200+ Backfires during Battle of Norwegian Sea.
CVN-74 John C. Stennis: operates in both Battles of Kamchakta with reserve air wing, provides CAS in Korea and Japanese Kuriles op, occasionally patrols between Guam & Okinawa.
CVL-16 Lexington: hunted for raiders in Caribbean and central Atlantic, its aircraft located & tracked Kirov as tried to reach Cuba, suffered engineering casualty & put into repair yard in Mobile. Following TDM parts unavailable, aircraft & crew became part of local defense force under USMC leadership.
CVL-34 Oriskany: on workups off West Coast following reactivation in Long Beach with scratch airwing during TDM. Patrols area from San Francisco-Hawaii-Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia)-Galapagos Islands-Panama until runs out of fuel. In Panama.

edit: (CVN-75 Harry Truman is destroyed while still under construction in Newport News, Va when the Norfolk area is struck by a SS-24 during the TDM).