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- From: pdchapin@unix.amherst.edu (PAUL D CHAPIN)
- Newsgroups: sci.military
- Subject: Carrier History Question
- Message-ID: <C1IsB8.7qA@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 15:57:08 GMT
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: Amherst College
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- From PAUL D CHAPIN <pdchapin@unix.amherst.edu>
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- This is a followup to my earlier request for info on WWII carriers. I've
- found two excellent sources, Okumiya's "Zero!" and Ito's "The End of
- the Imperial Japanese Navy". One gives the launching dates and other
- the sinkings.
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- The problem is with the Junyo. Ito lists it as medium damage in Dec, but
- survived until the end of the war. Okumiya lists it as sunk, time not given.
- Neither source describes it's sinking/damage, so I would suppose it did not
- happen during a major battle. Anybody know what actually happened?
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- Ito also lists several carriers as "foundered". At the risk of exposing
- myself as a former army man I will say that my dictionary gives as definition
- of founder "to sink below the water," which sound suspiciously like sinking.
- I'm assuming that this means they sunk in harbor and were, therefore,
- theoretically recoverable. Carriers involved are Amagi and Kaiyo.
-