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What Was The Fate of The Shinano? | Japan’s Ten-Day Supercarrier


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The modern supercarriers of the US Navy. More than 80,000 tons of moving American foreign policy. Each one of these incredible ships carries more firepower than most nations on Earth and are thus the ultimate expression of US military might. It is said that whenever there has been a crisis anywhere in the world in the last 80 years, the first question the sitting US President has asked is, “Where is the nearest carrier?” The first true supercarrier was the USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 commissioned into US service on April 29th 1961 at a time when a large number of World War II-era carriers were still serving in the fleet. During the later stages of the war there was one carrier in service, albeit briefly, that in terms of scale at least could be considered a direct forerunner to the revolutionary 1961 ship. In this episode we are going to look at the background, conception and ultimately the fate of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Shinano, World War II’s ill-fated supercarrier.

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Narrated by: William Earl
Written & Researched by: Tony Wilkins

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