This ship has flat top that allows five helicopters ... with another aircraft carrier in the then-Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). The Kaga was the third IJN aircraft carrier, which entered service ...

Yet the ship was a victim of circumstance as much as ... It was for the Japanese. When the IJN’s four carriers were lost in the war, and Japan’s priority shifted to national defense instead ...

The pilot received the same funeral that the ship would have given one of its own sailors. Eighty years later, the Missouri is a museum moored at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, not far from the submerged hull ...