A decade before World War II, Japan was already preparing for ... the Imperial Japanese Navy secretly built IJN Ryūjō, a carrier too small to be restricted yet powerful enough to launch bombers ...

But Hitler’s Germany did make progress towards building an aircraft carrier ... who allowed the Germans to inspect the impressive IJN carrier Akagi. In fact, Admiral Raeder proposed halting ...

The Izumo-class Kaga might sound familiar to World War II historians. That's because it shares a name with another aircraft carrier in the then-Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). The Kaga was the third ...

But 4 June 1942 would see the tide turn, with three US Navy (USN) aircraft carriers waiting in ambush for the IJN near a tiny atoll whose name would become immortalized in history: Midway.