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Marine Program: Japanese naval vessels during World War II

Marine Program: Japanese naval vessels during World War II

Japanese Navy ships.

Marine Program: Japanese naval vessels during World War II

Since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has absorbed a lot of Western culture, and after the rise of militarism, it is even more intoxicated with the guns of the ship. Japan was one of the first countries in the world to develop aircraft carriers. The Japanese aircraft carrier Fengxiang, built in 1922, is considered the world's first standard aircraft carrier. During World War II, Japan built more than two dozen aircraft carriers, which once swept across the sea and became a catalyst for the high expansion of its ambitions.

Marine Program: Japanese naval vessels during World War II

Japanese ships.

Marine Program: Japanese naval vessels during World War II

By the end of the Pacific War in 1945, 29 aircraft carriers had been built (4 of which had been launched but were not completed). At the beginning of World War II, the Japanese Navy, under the command of a group of generals such as Yamamoto Fifty-six who knew the importance of naval aviation, swept across almost half of the Pacific Ocean. Until the Battle of Midway, the Japanese Navy was defeated by a series of mistakes, and a large number of excellent pilots and aircraft maintenance personnel were killed with 4 first-line aircraft carriers.

Marine Program: Japanese naval vessels during World War II

Carrier-based aircraft of the Japanese Navy.