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Battle of Midway. Akagi (Japanese: 赤城, "Red castle", named after Mount Akagi) was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Though she was laid down as an Amagi -class battlecruiser, Akagi was converted to an aircraft carrier while still under construction to comply with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty.
Relief Map of Akagi Volcano. Mount Akagi (赤城山, Akagi-yama, Red Castle) is a stratovolcano in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. The broad, low dominantly andesitic stratovolcano rises above the northern end of the Kanto Plain. It contains an elliptical, 3 km × 4 km (1.9 mi × 2.5 mi) summit caldera with post-caldera lava domes arranged along a NW ...
First purpose built carrier launched. Sunk 9 April 1942 by Japanese aircraft. Hermes Royal Navy: Centaur: Light carrier CATOBAR — Laid down 1944, cancelled 1945. Hermes Royal Navy: R12 Centaur: Fleet carrier CATOBAR / STOVL: 1959–1984 Ex-Elephant. To India as INS Viraat: Hiryū Japanese Navy: Fleet carrier STOBAR: 1939–1942 Sunk at Midway ...
Amagi -class battlecruiser. Amagi. -class battlecruiser. The Amagi class (天城型, Amagi-gata) was a series of four battlecruisers planned for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) as part of the Eight-eight fleet in the early 1920s. The ships were to be named Amagi, Akagi, Atago, and Takao. The Amagi design was essentially a lengthened version of ...
These conversions gave rise to the USS Langley in 1922, the US Lexington-class aircraft carriers (1927), Japanese Akagi and Kaga, and British Courageous class (of which Furious was one). Specialist carrier evolution was well underway, with several navies ordering and building warships that were purposefully designed to function as aircraft ...
Kamikaze (神風, pronounced [kamiꜜkaze]; ' divine wind ' [1] or ' spirit wind '), officially Shinpū Tokubetsu Kōgekitai (神風特別攻撃隊, ' Divine Wind Special Attack Unit '), were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who flew suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II ...
Japanese ship. Akagi. At least two warships of Japan have borne the name Akagi: Japanese gunboat Akagi, which served in the Sino-Japanese War. Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi, which served in World War II. Categories: Set index articles on ships. Japanese Navy ship names. Imperial Japanese Navy ship names.
Akagi: Yami ni Oritatta Tensai (アカギ 〜闇に降り立った天才〜, lit. "Akagi: The Genius Who Descended into Darkness") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuyuki Fukumoto. First published in 1991 in Takeshobo 's weekly magazine Kindai Mahjong, it is a spin-off prequel to the author's previous work Ten.