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The Izumo-Class Destroyer: Japan's First Aircraft Carrier After World War II
That's because it shares a name with another aircraft carrier in the then-Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). The Kaga was the third IJN aircraft carrier, which entered service in 1928. The Kaga was ...
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Navy Dream or Nightmare? Merge Battleship and Aircraft Carriers
Around the same time Hyuga and Ise entered reconstruction, the IJN determined to redesign one of its new Yamato-class battleships, then under construction, into an aircraft carrier. The resultant ...