The Japanese Aircraft Carrier Akagi

by Stefan Dramiński and Stefan Draminksi

This vessel, which was to become the most famous Japanese aircraft carrier and the symbol of the might of the Imperial Japanese Navy aviation, was initially built as a battlecruiser. Only as the result of the resolutions of the Washington Naval Treaty the Akagi ("Red Castle", the name of a Japanese mountain) was completed as an aircraft carrier. During the first six months of the war in the Pacific she was the flagship of the carrier strike group,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8364596810
• ISBN13: 9788364596810
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Kagero
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.2" x 11.7"