Aircraft carriers Japanese

Geoffrey Till, Adapting the aircraft carrier the British, American and Japanese case studies , in Williamson Murray and Alan R. Millett (eds.). Military Innovation in the Intermar Period (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 191-226. 

The largest battleship ever built, the Japanese Yamato, displaced 65,000 tonnes and aircraft carriers subsequently reached over 75,000 tonnes. The peculiar characteristics of a floating tank, filled with liquid just a little lighter than water, meant that tankers could get considerably bigger than these capital ships. In 1950 a typical tanker weighed 25,000 tonnes. Improvements in welding technology, particularly... 

A Japanese fighter plane on a kamikaze mission is shot down by antiaircraft guns on a US aircraft carrier in January 1945. In the culture of the Japanese military, surrender was not an option. 

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