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Wydawca: Avalanche Press

In the weeks after the catastrophic Battle of Midway in early July 1942, the Japanese naval staff looked to make good the loss of four fleet carriers – two-thirds of the First Air Fleet’s striking power. There would be changes to carrier doctrine, and more attention paid to increasing the fleet’s anti-aircraft firepower. No senior officer, however, would lose his job – that would be an admission of failure.

Japanese pre-war plans already called for the conversion of suitable large hulls into aircraft carriers. Two large liners had begun conversion in 1940 while still under construction, and one of them (Junyo) had participated in the Aleutians operation conducted simultaneously with the attack on Midway while the other (Hiyo) would commission at the end of July. The submarine support ship Taigei was under reconstruction at Yokosuka Navy Yard and would commission in November as the light carrier Ryuho. Two more submarine support ships had already been converted and commissioned (Shoho and Zuiho).