From Japan's Hyuga and Ise battleship-carrier hybrids, which lacked sufficient roles and air wings, to Russia's unreliable Admiral Kuznetsov, carriers can fail due to poor design, inadequate ...

K “Fulcrum D” has largely been forgotten despite its great capabilities. Originally designed to take flight from aircraft ...

four carriers, two battleships (of the Ise class, with flight decks aft), five cruisers and six destroyers. By then the Japanese plan of encirclement was completely revealed, and “Bull” Halsey ...

evading 1,400 shells from Japanese battleships and cruisers before being attacked by 26 carrier dive bombers, taking one fatal hit. There were no survivors," U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline ...