The following day, Japanese forces lost one of the world's two biggest battleships, Musashi, to carrier planes of the U.S. Third Fleet, which in turn lost its light carrier Princeton. That night ...

JS Kaga bears the same name as an aircraft carrier that took part in Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II.

ship Izumo off the southeast coast of Japan—the first landing on a Japanese carrier by a U.S. fixed-wing aircraft since World War II. The flights tested modifications to the ship, which ...

American and Japanese carriers fought a two-day sea and air battle off the coast of Saipan. It would go down as one of the biggest carrier battles of World War II. Japan lost three aircraft ...

The Japanese light carrier’s hangar sheltered eight A6M2 ... report include “Japanese Naval Aces and Fighter Units in World War II” by Ikuhiko Hata and Yasuho Izawa; “The First Team ...

Media in China are warning against Japan's “remilitarisation” after the country unveiled its biggest warship since World War II ... carrier,” stresses the Global Times. Despite Japanese ...