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Light Aircraft Carrier (9) Class Picture Type Ships Displacement Note Hōshō-class: Light aircraft carrier: Hōshō (1922–1945) 7,470 tonnes First purpose-built carrier in the world. Scrapped 1946. Ryūjō-class: Light aircraft carrier: Ryūjō (1931–1942) 8,000 tonnes Sunk 1942. Hiyō-class: Light aircraft carrier: Hiyō (1942–1944) Jun ...
World War II escort carriers of Japan (1 C, 12 P) Pages in category "World War II aircraft carriers of Japan" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 ...
Aircraft Allied Code name First flown Number built Service Aichi D3A Navy Type 99 Carrier Bomber: Val 1940 1486 IJN: Aichi B7A Ryusei Navy carrier torpedo bomber: Grace 1942 114 ...
World War II aircraft carriers of Japan (1 C, 26 P) A. Aircraft carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy (9 C, 28 P) E. Escort carriers of the Imperial Japanese Army (5 ...
This list also includes ships before the official founding of the Navy and some auxiliary ships used by the Army. For a list of ships of its successor, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, see List of active Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships and List of combatant ship classes of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
The location, combat activity, and operational status for each Japanese aircraft carrier at the end of each month over the entire war is available at the "Collection of Statistics on Japanese Aircraft Carriers" in the reference document section at the World War II Database. [82]
At the beginning of the Pacific War, the strategy of the Imperial Japanese Navy was underpinned by several key assumptions.The most fundamental was that just as the Russo-Japanese War had been decided by a single naval battle at Tsushima (May 27–28, 1905), the war against the United States would also be decided by a single, decisive battle at sea, or Kantai Kessen. [14]
The hull of the second ship, Kaga, was converted into an aircraft carrier to replace an Amagi-class battlecruiser that had been wrecked by the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923. [141] The carrier supported Japanese troops in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War and took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor and the invasion of Rabaul in the ...