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General statistics posted by myself come from the book ONI 222-US, United States Naval Vessels, published by The Floating Drydock, Kresgeville, PA 18333 (ISBN: 0944055028).
If anybody familiar with Naval lingo can interpret this, please post it on the main page under general statistics. It is about aircraft capacity. "Aircraft; 97 F4U and 48 SB2C or 73 F4U, 27 FSF, 32 F7F." Liblamb 03:52, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Those are old-style aircraft designations: F4U was the Vought F4U Corsair, SB2C was the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver. I'm not sure what "FSF" is supposed to be ( F6F Hellcat, maybe?) but F7F was the Grumman F7F Tigercat. The old-style Navy designations were terminated in 1963 in favor of the Tri-Service Designation System, which was patterned mainly after the US Air Force's designations. A number of existing Navy fighters at the time were given Tri-Service designations: The FJ-4 Fury became the F-1D Fury, and the McDonnell (later McDonnell Douglas) F4H-2 Phantom II became the F-4B (the Air Force's F-110A Spectre became the F-4C). Iceberg3k 15:59, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)
Article reassessed and graded as start class. -- dashiellx ( talk) 16:56, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
...if they're so called after the Battle, the Atoll, or something else. Do you know? Chrisrus ( talk) 05:16, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
The Franklin D Roosevelt was originally going to be named Coral Sea, was renamed during construction after the president's death (and before completion). The name Coral Sea was then "pushed" to CV-43. What was the originally planned name for CV-43? Wfoj2 ( talk) 12:53, 5 May 2013 (UTC)