112, 129, 204; Werneth, p. 20Parshall and Tully, p. 239; Cressman, et al., p. 103Parshall and Tully, pp. Akagi was laid down as an Amagi-class battlecruiser at Kure, Japan, on 6 December 1920.Construction was halted, however, when Japan signed the Washington Naval Treaty on 6 February 1922. 60–63.Peattie, pp. 65, 70, 159; Stille, pp. Jentschura, Hansgeorg; Jung, Dieter; Mickel, Peter (1977). Nagumo's chief of staff, Rear Admiral Aoki refused to abandon ship with the damage control teams at 22:00 and had himself tied to the anchor capstan. Therefore, in April 1941, the IJN formed the The Japanese doctrine held that entire carrier air groups should not be launched in a single massed attack. 72, 323; Hata and Izawa, p. 20; Lengerer, pp. Its is reported that the wreck is upright, in its keel and is largely intact. For other ships with the same name, see Japanese ship Akagi. 130, 170–171; Hoyt, pp. 72, 323; Hata and Izawa, p. 20; Lengerer, pp. Six of the Zeros were intended to be stationed on Midway after the invasion and belonged to the 6th Air Group.
Ariga, who was senior to Aoki, ordered him to abandon ship. The two twin turrets on the middle flight deck were removed and fourteen twin The ship's anti-aircraft guns were grouped amidships and placed relatively low on the hull.
124–125, 147–53; Tully; Stille, pp. Lengerer, Hans (1982). The two main hangars opened onto the middle and lower flight decks to allow aircraft to take off directly from the hangars while landing operations were in progress on the main flight deck above. 462–463Tully; Peattie, pp. Rob Kraft and Naval History and Heritage Command historian Frank Thompson aboard RV Petrel identified the wreck Akagi using high frequency sonar. The wreckage of Akagi was found bottom of the Pacific in October 2019 by the Research Vessel RV Petrel. 13–14; Prange, Parshall and Tully, pp. Tully, Anthony P. (1998; revised 5 November 2007). 254–59; Peattie, p. 159; Werneth, p. 24Fuchida and Okumiya, p. 231; Parshall and Tully, pp. "Shortly thereafter, the fires broke through the flight deck and heat and smoke made the ship's bridge unusable. The upper and middle hangar areas totaled about 80,375 square feet (7,467.1 mThe ship carried dedicated anti-aircraft armament of six twin 45-caliber At this time, the IJN's carrier doctrine was still in its early stages.
82, 86, 137–38, and 416; Peattie, pp.
Akagi (Japanese: 赤城, "Red Castle") was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), named after Mount Akagi in present-day Gunma Prefecture. Thus, First Air Fleet air attacks would often consist of at least two massed waves of aircraft. 15–16; Willmott, p. 415; Parshall and Tully, p. 245Lengerer, p. 171; Parshall and Tully, pp. In Roberts, John. 172, 174–75; Parshall and Tully, p. 131; Werneth, pp. The First Air Fleet was Although the concentration of so many fleet carriers into a single unit was a new and revolutionary offensive strategic concept, the First Air Fleet suffered from several defensive deficiencies that gave it, in In preparation for the attack, the ship was anchored at In January 1942, together with the rest of the First and Fifth Carrier Divisions, On 19 April 1942, while near Taiwan during the transit to Japan, Concerned by the US carrier strikes in the Marshall Islands, With the fleet positioned 250 nautical miles (460 km; 290 mi) northwest of Midway Island at dawn (04:45 local time) on 4 June 1942, At this time, Nagumo's carriers were attacked by six US Navy At 07:55, the next American strike from Midway arrived in the form of 16 Marine Minutes after the torpedo plane attacks, American carrier-based dive bombers arrived over the Japanese carriers almost undetected and began their dives. 281, 386–387, 417, 476, 561Fuchida and Okumiya, p. 231; Parshall and Tully, pp. 130, 170–71; Hoyt, pp. Also, the island blocked the forward arcs of the port battery. Aoki was the only Japanese fleet carrier commander to survive the battle. 16–17, 274; Hata and Izawa, p. 21; Evans and Fuchida, p. 54; Prange, "Dec 7", p. 265Prange, "At Dawn", pp. 199, 258, 266, 365, 390; Prange, "Dec 7", pp. The anti-aircraft sponsons were to be raised one deck to allow them some measure of cross-deck fire as was done during The Japanese doctrine held that entire carrier air groups should not be launched in a single massed attack. 54–55; Parshall and Tully, pp. 72, 323; Hata and Izawa, p. 20; Lengerer, pp. Also, the island blocked the forward arcs of the port battery. 87, 192, 321; Evans and Fuchida, pp. 6–7Tully; Peattie, pp. 85, 136–45; Peattie, pp. Thus, the guns could not be brought to bear directly forward or aft. 155–59; Stille, pp. Ariga, who was senior to Aoki, ordered him to abandon ship. 395, 403–404, 406, 413, 421–426Parshall and Tully, pp. Subsequent attack waves consisted of the next deckload of aircraft. Seven of the carrier's aircrew members were killed, also the fewest of any of the four fleet carriers lost in the battle. 254–259; Peattie, p. 159; Werneth, p. 24Parshall and Tully, pp. 14–15, 50–51Lengerer, pp. The aircraft was recovered by American carrier dive bomber doctrine dictated that when two squadron's were presented with two priority targets, in this case Nagumo and his staff were forced to evacuate through the forward windows of the bridge by rope. 14–15, 50–51Lengerer, pp. 72–76; Stille, p. 13; Goldstein and Dillon, pp. 72–76; Stille, p. 13; Goldstein and Dillon, pp. 171–172; Jentschura, Jung and Mickel, p. 44Peattie, pp.