What is "flattops"

Usage examples of "flattops".

One small ship with minuscule guns had driven the battlewagons into disarray, giving the baby flattops a few minutes of respite.

Those missing flattops weren't covering the oncoming San Bernardino force.

Or Halsey could stay off San Bernardino with the battleships, and Turn Mitscher's flattops loose to run north and get the carriers.

To protect the defenseless baby flattops, there were nine moderate-sized destroyers and twelve sharply undersized craft called destroyer escorts, whose name correctly defined their duties.

But the two damaged Japanese flattops were dropped from the operation.

Then he had ordered the remaining one hundred eight planes in the four flattops spotted on deck in readiness to attack any enemy warships that might show up.

The two big flattops of his division, the Akagi and the Kaga, had that chore to rush through.

Halsey was directly ordering the flattops about, and their real boss had become a silent passenger on the Enterprise.

Well before that morning, the decoy flattops had to lure Halsey northward.

Sherman's flattops, the northernmost group, under air attack at nine-thirty A.

The awesome Main Striking Force stumbled on a cheap victory to he had for the taking, in routine gunnery, on the way to the beachhead: six slow tubby little flattops and a few destroyers-and D.

A ragtail collection of small, thin [24] shelled, lightly armed, slow-moving baby aircraft carriers, called ‘Jeeps’ or ‘baby flattops,’ intended for unopposed antisubmarine patrol or the support of Army troops ashore.

But in hopes that the meager weapon might do damage on deck, the baby flattops fired.

And there, way off the port bow, were two flattops, both of them large enough to be fleet carriers.

The dimensional fortress settled in toward the lake bed, the two flattops held level, elbows against its own midsection like Jimmy Cagney doing his patented move.