The story of IJN Kaga

 

“Kaga (加賀) was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and was named after the former Kaga Province in present-day Ishikawa Prefecture.”

 

I had known the IJN Kaga for a long time now and it’s the first aircraft carrier that I had ever known.

So yeah, I’ve Known Kaga and it’s the first aircraft carrier that I had ever known.

Even before I’ve known about the other carriers like Hornet, Junyo, Soryu, the Graf Zeppelin and some more carriers that I will most definitely write a story about in the future.

The IJN Kaga had actually participated in the Battle of Midway but was sunk by US Naval aviation. But I believe that Kaga would Have been a great museum ship if it had survived.

 

 

                                    IJN Kaga

            Armament: 10 × single 200 mm (7.9 in) guns

 8 × twin 127 mm (5 in) DP guns

           11 × twin Type 96 25 mm (1 in) AA guns

            Aircraft carried: 72 + 18 in storage

            Aircraft: 21 Mitsubishi A6M Zero

    27 Aichi D3A

    27 Nakajima B5N 

            Armor: Belt armor: 152 mm (6 in)

                          Deck armor: 38 mm (1.5 in)

            Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)

            Length: 247.65 m (812 ft 6 in)

Beam: 32.5 m (106 ft 8 in)

            Draft: 9.48 m (31 ft 1 in)

            Displacement: 38,200 tons

 

 

The IJN Kaga for me had a really small control tower in comparison to the US carrier control tower.

If you search it up you will see that the US carriers have a big control tower and the Japanese carrier Kaga. Well its kind of smaller, but it did have a very big runway for the planes.

And having a bigger hull for me means you can put more planes, more turrets for self-defense like getting more secondary turrets because those things can help defend the ship from enemies that are getting close.

 The IJN Kaga was the third aircraft carrier to enter service after the Hosho and Akagi.

It was during the Battle of Midway that IJN Kaga was sunk by US Naval aviation. But before that the IJN Kaga was also part of the Attack on Pearl Harbor.

At the time the IJN Kaga’s planes were loaded with torpedoes so they had to plan on which ship to hit.

As to how it sank its because four bombs hit the deck

causing a massive fire. And one of the bombs had went through the deck and then it exploded in the upper hangar.

Then when the Japanese’s hope to tow the ship back to Japan for repairs was lost, they hit their own ship with to torpedoes on its side. Causing it to list and sink, but they did try to fight the fires and save the ship.

It was just not enough…

 

 

Italic/bold contents are credited to Wikipedia.