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The Imperial Japanese Navy started the Pacific War with 10 aircraft carriers, [69] the largest and most modern carrier fleet in the world at that time. There were eight American aircraft carriers at the beginning of hostilities, [ 70 ] only three operating in the Pacific; and eight British aircraft carriers, of which a single one operated in ...
Operated by the Imperial Japanese Army. Worlds' first Amphibious Assault ships. Shimane Maru-class: Escort carrier: Shimane Maru (1945–1945) 11,989 tonnes Yamashio Maru-class: Escort carrier: Yamashio Maru (1945–1945) 16,119 tonnes Kumano Maru-class: Escort carrier: Kumano Maru (1945–1945) 8,258 tonnes Operated by Imperial Japanese Army.
(Japanese Cypress) Mar 1944 Sep 1944 Surface action off Manila Bay, Jan 1945 ‡ Kaede (Maple) Mar 1944 Oct 1944 To Rep. of China, Jul 1947 Kashi (Live Oak) May 1944 Sep 1944 Scrapped 1947 Kaya (Japanese Nutmeg-Yew) Apr 1944 Sep 1944 To USSR, Jul 1947 Keyaki (Japanese Elm) Jun 1944 Dec 1944 Sunk as target, 1947 Kiri (Paulownia Hardwood) Feb 1944
1 September 1929; training hulk to end of World War II Niitaka: Yokosuka Naval Arsenal Niitaka-class protected cruiser: 3,366 27 January 1904 26 August 1923; Typhoon off Kamchatka: Tsushima: Kure Naval Arsenal: Niitaka-class protected cruiser 3,366 14 February 1904 1 April 1939; Sunk off Miura 1944 Otowa: Yokosuka Naval Arsenal Protected ...
Shinano (Japanese: 信濃, named after the ancient Shinano Province) was an aircraft carrier built by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II, the largest such built up to that time.
The Japanese Modern Historical Manuscripts Association, Organizations, structures and personnel affairs of the Imperial Japanese Army & Navy, University of Tōkyō Press, Tōkyō, Japan, 1971, ISBN 978-4-13-036009-8. The Maru Special series each volume, "Ushio Shobō"., Tōkyō, Japan.
(1) Does not include Imperial Japanese Army built aircraft transports. (2) Amagi — sister ship to Akagi both as a battlecruiser and as a conversion to an aircraft carrier, was destroyed during construction by an earthquake and replaced with the Kaga.
The First Carrier Division (第一航空戦隊, Dai Ichi Kōkū sentai, often abbreviated as 一航戦 Ichikō-sen) was an aircraft carrier unit of the Imperial Japanese Navy's First Air Fleet. At the beginning of the Pacific Campaign of World War II, the First Carrier Division consisted of the fleet carriers Akagi and Kaga.