Discover "Japanese Aircraft Carriers 1920–1945" by Ermanno Martino, a richly illustrated study of Imperial Japan's carrier fleet, tracing its rise from naval aviation pioneer to destruction during ...

Sōryū was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the mid-1930s. A sister ship, Hiryū, was intended to follow Sōryū, but Hiryū's design was heavily modified and she is ...