It bears the name of the World War II-era aircraft carrier Kaga, which took part in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force Izumo-class ...
The U.S. Navy might have begun World War II with faster battlecruisers had it prioritized building them after World War I, instead of slow, heavily armored battleships.
World War II was a turning point for naval warfare ... Midway pitted four Japanesecarriers against three American carriers. All four Japanesecarriers were sunk. The Americans lost one ...
But, you know, they were held, too.” Roughly 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated in internment camps during World War II after then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive ...