During WW2 the longest US Carrier was the USS Lexington (888 feet), sunk during the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942.
The USS Midway was 972 feet long, but was commissioned after the war ended in...
The Yorktown class carrier, USS Enterprise (CV6) was about 824 feet long. Her sisters Hornet & Yorktown did not survive WWII; Enterprise was scrapped (re-cycled) in 1959.
They can change out the men with planes coming in and picking them up/dropping off new crew. They also receive supplies (food, gas, water, spare parts, etc.) from other Navy ships. They could perform...