Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Babban canjin yanayin a cikin yakin ruwan ya faru tare da gabatarwar jirgin sama. Na farko a Taranto
a 1940 sannan kuma a Pearl Harbor a 1941, mai ɗaukar hoto ya nuna ikonsa na kai hare-hare a kan jiragen ruwa na abokan gaba a waje da gani da kuma jigilar jiragen ruwa. Yaƙin Leyte Gulf (1944) ya kasance mafi girman yaƙin jirgin ruwa a tarihi; shi ma ya kasance yaƙin ƙarshe wanda jiragen ruwa suka taka muhimmiyar rawa. A ƙarshen Yaƙin Duniya na II, mai ɗaukar jirgin ya zama babban iko na yaƙin teku.