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Ranked: 5 Best Aircraft Carriers of World War II
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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 ...
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Head-to-head: The Douglas SBD Dauntless vs. Curtiss SB2C Helldiver Bomber
What can be said about these iconic warbirds that hasn’t already been said? Let us tell you. As was the case with torpedo bombers, the heyday of the dive bomber did not last beyond World War II. But ...
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Naval Campaigns Midway
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.
WWII veteran recounts escape from sinking Japanese navy carrier
On a cloudless day off the Philippines coast, Shigetoshi Kaneko held onto floating debris while adrift, clinging to hope after esc ...