Summary and Key Points: The Imperial Japanese Navy's carrier Shinano was an ill-fated warship, originally intended as a battleship but converted into an aircraft carrier during World War II ...

Soon, crew members confirmed the target was an aircraft carrier — one larger than they had ever seen before. The Archerfish gave chase to the Shinano on the night of November 28, 1944, but since ...

Shinano would be fitted out as a 68,000-ton aircraft carrier similar in construction to the smaller Taiho. The carrier would have a hangar and carry four dozen fighters for self-defense.

The Shinano was the largest aircraft carrier ever built when its construction was completed, as she displaced 64,000 tons of seawater. She was also 872 feet long and could support an air wing of ...

The July 24 obituary of Capt. Joseph F. Enright--a truly great submarine officer--contained several errors. The Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano, even accepting 69,000 tons as its displacement ...

The United States is helping Japan build its first post-war aircraft carriers, with a Japanese helicopter carrier currently undergoing conversion into a light aircraft carrier having arrived in ...

The light aircraft carrier was refitted with a flight deck to carry F-35B stealth fighters. The destroyer-turned-flattop is the first carrier to be operated by Japan since World War II.

Deep in the South Pacific Ocean, researchers have located the final resting place of the USS Hornet, the World War II aircraft carrier sunk in a 1942 battle with the Japanese Navy. Overhead sonar ...

Shinano would be fitted out as a 68,000-ton aircraft carrier similar in construction to the smaller Taiho. The carrier would have a hangar and carry four dozen fighters for self-defense.