@@kapitanpi88 can you give me a link to the source or photo to prove it? I don’t know even one photo with 3 pairs. By the way, can I ask you to send me some close-ups of a couple places? And I have a couple more questions on a few places on your 3d, can you help?
Found on combined fleet: 1 May 1940: Arrives at Sasebo. Hereafter over the following months undergoes extensive refit and maintenance work. 15 October 1940: Captain Kubo is relieved by Captain (later Vice Admiral) Yamada Sadayoshi (42) (former CO of carrier SORYU) as Commanding Officer. 14 November 1940: Enters drydock at Sasebo. 15 November 1940: Joins the First Air Squadron (CarDiv 1), 2nd Fleet. 18 November 1940: Overhaul is completed. Undocked. Her flight deck is enlarged and reinforced. If not earlier in May, an additional pair of support pillars are placed forward in-between the two existing pairs. (Most likely related to a catapult system, see Data Page) Her hanger areas are enlarged to accommodate the new generation of aircraft. Her arrester gear is replaced by a Type 3 system and her bridge is modernized. Four additional Type 96 twin 25-mm guns are fitted on sponsons. Her airgroup consists of 12 Mitsubishi A5M4 fighters, 24 Aichi D1A2 bombers and 36 Yokosuka B4Y1 attack planes with another 18 aircraft carried in crates as spares.
Do stu tysięcy diabłów i ciężkiej cholery - w składzie PMW służyły podczas wojny naprawdę ciekawsze okręty, by tylko wymienić wszystkie normalne niszczyciele. ♍ Ous
Now, if I could be allowed to put my 3D goggles on and be allowed to enter the ship and also experience a simulation of its last battle ..... I hope I am not asking for too much.
I got the book (and others from Stefan Draminski) : top!!! I recommend it to understand all the inside arrangement of the ship between many interesting things
picked up 2 of these last fall with intention to model montana. found the veryfire montana a few days ago. now i got the 3 to build. on the mid 1985 mods plus the stacks will be left as all will be under BBN classification. also the o-2 level will have vls installed. thinking on how to add 2 hangers for uh-60s in the aft house area. have a lot of grinding too due to remove all the 20 / 40 mm gun shields.
A lot of discussion about Battleship and Cruiser designs, too many variants I guess. But with Carriers it’s only one... it works or not, and the Graf Zeppelin would with out a doubt. Sadly it would have serious operational troubles, but I wonder how those fighters and bombers would do in the Atlantic. The Japanese planes were superior to american and British up until 1942... the Bf109 was superior to anything the brits had at sea too until 1944. “What if” is not an argument, but just imagining. In a way we must be glad it was never finished in time... at least it would have prolonged the inevitable end of the war.
I just went to the Iowa yesterday (1-25-2023) and it’s worth every penny (only $25) as soon as I saw your book, Mr. Draminski, I had to buy it! Especially when I saw a Polish guy wrote it. Amazing details. I will recommend this to EVERBODY. Dziekuje!
The Nazi's terrible Carrier design and Naval Aircraft ?? Casemates 5'9" guns wasted weight and space ?? "From Aircraft Carrier WWll Fact Files". Waterline length:breadth ratio of 8.331 she needed very powerful machinery to reach her designed speed wasting more space !! Flight deck was lightly protected, only 20mm of armor over the Hanger spaces !! Indeed, the scale of protection was light throughout the ship, with only 60mm over the Magazines and 40mm over the Engines & Machinery !! Awful choice of Naval aircraft with Fieseler Fi 167/ Navalized Stuka & Bf-109 the ME with the worst narrow landing gear possible for Carrier landing, no range !! I could go one but it would of been just another Nazi failure !!! Sorry "Fanboys" just facts !!! Semper Fi
Do you also have some of the insides as well? I am trying to make this ship inside a game of but i do not have the crew, officers ect compartments sizes.
IJN Yamato, the undisputed heavy-weight queen of the Pacific, may she and her sister IJN Musahsi rest in peace, way they be reunited with the crews in the great beyond, let the light of Elsygium grant them passage across Hades domain
