The career of Kaga, which started on the drawing boards of the design bureau as a battleship had capacity for swift development. The first studies on the prelim

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On 4 May 1940 the third Yamato-class battleship was laid down at the Navy Shipyard in Yokosuka. It was to be named Shinano, after a province on Honshu Island, i

"In the extensive literature about the Battle of Midway, the role of American submarines has not received adequate attention. In The Search for the Japanese Fle