Dive into the dramatic naval history as we explore the fatal turn of the Shinano, the world’s largest aircraft carrier at the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: A postwar U.S. Navy analysis suggested the Yamato-class ships, including Shinano, suffered from design flaws. The joints between the main armored belt and the armored ...

Yet by 1942, Japan began to realize that it needed aircraft carriers more than battleships. Naval warfare was now ruled by these floating airfields, and Japan had lost its four best at the Battle of ...