What Happened To Japan’s Aircraft Carriers After World War II?
A once fearsome force neutered for good
4 min readAug 31, 2022
In 1941 in the wake of the attacks on Pearl Harbor, Japan had ten aircraft carriers in its fleet, and all of them were operating in the Pacific. That gave them the largest carrier fleet in the world and the most concentrated. The United States only had three aircraft carriers in the Pacific in…
