Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi

The HIJMS Akagi (Japanese: 赤城, meaning "red castle", a volcano in the Kanto region of Japan) was an aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II.

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  In Sukumo Bay, southern Shikoku, 27 April 1939, following her extensive 1935-38 modernization
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  At sea during the Summer of 1941, with three Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" fighters parked forward
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  Akagi in April, 1942 as seen from and aircraft that has just taken-off from her deck.
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  Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi and a destroyer maneuvering below thin clouds while under high-level bombing attack by USAAF B-17 bombers, shortly after 8AM, 4 June 1942.
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  Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes, depicting the attack by USS Enterprise (CV-6) and USS Yorktown (CV-5) dive bombers on the Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi, Kaga and Soryu in the morning of 4 June 1942.
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  Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes, depicting the attack by USS Yorktown (CV-5) and USS Enterprise (CV-6) dive bombers on the Japanese aircraft carriers Soryu, Akagi and Kaga in the morning of 4 June 1942.

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