Profile of the Prey: The Aircraft Carrier IJN Shinano The Shinano, whose keel was laid in May 1940, actually started off her ...
Japan needed more aircraft carriers, and fast. The IJN decided to redesign Shinano to help make up Japan’s carrier losses. At ...
The aircraft carrier USS George Washington is on its way to Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, where it will take the place of the ...
In total, 42 were built, as listed below (other sources say 47). Although other navies had experimented with submarine aircraft carriers, by World War II the IJN was the only navy (aside from one ...
One of the Japanese warships bears the name of a World War II-era carrier that took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Ronald Reagan remained in-port at North Island as of Wednesday. It is being prepared for an estimated 17-month maintenance program scheduled for March 2025 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and ...
The USS United States (CVA-58) was planned as a revolutionary supercarrier following World War II, designed to launch heavy ...
But 4 June 1942 would see the tide turn, with three US Navy (USN) aircraft carriers waiting in ambush for the IJN near a tiny atoll whose name would become immortalized in history: Midway.