What types of resources did aircraft carriers require to produce or maintain during WWII?

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Answer:

On December 1941 the US Navy had 7 aircraft carriers ( one named Enterprise, whose heroics got a series of starships named for her)

In the next 3 years the US built 115 ( yes that's right,one hundred fifteen ) carriers of all sizes, so

first of all you needed thousands of of miners digging coal and iron ore

and thousands of steelmakers to make the steel
and hundreds of railroad drivers to take the steel to the shipyards ( some of which had to be built from scratch )

where tens of thousands of men and women built the ships

and a Navy training centers who taught tens of thousands of civilian guys something about being sailor

and thousands of guys who learned to fly planes

and tens of thousands of men and women who built the planes...

and that was just to gt the ships in the water and ready to sail off.....

and then you needed 5 or so destroyers per fleet carrier to protect it from enemy subs, and ten cruisers and battleships to protect it from enemy airplanes.........we built 10 fast battleships, 64 cruisers and 450 destroyers in a thousand days ...........see the part about miners and steelworkers and shipwrights, above

and then to support the 500 warships that were actually fighting the Japanese at any given moment,there were another 1,500 support ships.....Service Force Pacific.......who would bring the millions of tons of oil and gasoline and food and bombs and bullets out to the warships............many who were 5,000 miles away from California,many who were 10,000 miles away

it's a phenomenal story of how a million men and women were organized from scratch , for almost all those million were civilians on Pearl Harbor Day, and 3 years later were the mightiest fleet ever seen