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There's a few things you've missed out. Both the British and the German tried aircraft-carrying subs during WWI. In 1915, the Germans tried flying seaplanes from U-12; these were armed with bombs, and in one case were used to bomb London. The next year, the British sub E22 was given two seaplanes, as part of a plan to ambush Zeppelins in the North Sea. The seaplanes didn't have a hangar, so the sub couldn't submerge with the aircraft aboard. Instead, the aircraft were just stuck on deck, and would float off. Neither experiment was particularly successful - the British one was never used operationally, as the aircraft kept being damaged by waves.  The USN did some trials in the 1920s, but never built a specialised aircraft carrying submarine. Instead, they bodged a waterproof hangar onto the submarine S-1. It operated between 1923 and 1926, flying the Martin MS-1 and the Cox-Klein XS-1 and XS-2. It was not very effective. They tried it again in the 1950s, with helicopters. The transport submarines Perch and Sealion were given waterproof hangars that could contain a Bell HTL helicopter. These subs had been converted into troop transports, and the hangars were more commonly used for small boats (but could also take LVTs). You can see some film of this from here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pcyhqXvRQ0&t=575s (at 9:35 or so, if the link hasn't worked). The hangars were removed in 1956, though helicopters could still land on the space left behind. There was an exercise in July 1956, where a flight of helicopters brought a company of marines out to Sealion: 
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