What You Need to Know: The top five WWII aircraft carriers ... of the Imperial Japanese Navy, notably at Midway. “Taffy 3,” ...

The decision was made to convert them into hybrid battleships ... The Shinano was a Japanese aircraft carrier that secretly began construction prior to the U.S. involvement in WWII.

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

Media in China are warning against Japan's “remilitarisation” after the country unveiled its biggest warship since World War II ... aircraft carrier,” stresses the Global Times. Despite ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

clinging to hope after escaping the Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Zuikaku before it sank. What began as another mission during World War II -- later known as the Battle of Leyte Gulf ...