Japan's Secret Supercarrier Only Seen Twice in WW2

This video was sponsored by World of Warships In 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy was desperately searching for ways to prevent American forces from invading their home islands. The B-29s were already bombing the cities of Japan that it occupied. The Philippines were in conflict with the United States. troops trying to recapture the area they needed to stop the liberation of the Philippines and repel any further attacks against their homeland, in response Japan decided to build a single ship to transport them all; It would be a

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super aircraft carrier that would conquer the oceans as a floating ship. invincible weapon its existence but a closely guarded

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to accumulate a single American reconnaissance aircraft and a single American submarine after its launch the Shinano was a desperate attempt by the Japanese to regain the initiative in the Pacific after the Battle of Midway in which the United States attacked, but military historian John Keegan called it the most surprising and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare for the Japanese.

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available to new players who register on the wargaming portal for the first time the battleship becomes a super aircraft carrier the Shinano was initially designed as a huge battleship to accompany the smaller battleships Musashi and Yamato in this project it changed well in development due to the loss of Krypton of the Japanese aircraft carriers during the Battle of Midway, Anna was soon modified so that she could become the largest aircraft carrier at the time the ship was named according to Japanese tradition in honor of a medieval city, its existence and development They stood firm.

Concrete walls and a roof were secretly built to hide the dry dock and workers were not allowed to leave their assigned positions during 16-hour shifts the dock was off-limits to those not involved in construction the secret Dilys canipe 8 I I supervised the security of the duck all employees working on the shenana were threatened with strict punishment for mentioning the new ship and it has been suggested that even execution was on the table for those who broke the code of silence it was essential for the Japanese to maintain The

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in its dry dock number six at the Yokosuka Naval Shipyard was a top secret, if the United States had even an inkling of what they were up to, the enemy nation would be forced to send bombers to Tokyo Bay and stop the project. before it was close to Once completed, the Japanese also relied heavily on the element of surprise for intimidation.

They wanted the huge and terrifying

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to appear in the Philippines almost out of nowhere and strike fear into the hearts of the enemy as a result of the strict policy of maintaining secrecy. The Shinano was one of the only major warships of the 20th century that was never professionally photographed during her construction; In fact, only two valid photographs of the ship have been published: the photograph taken by a reconnaissance ship from 9,800 meters above sea level on November 1, 1944, and a photograph taken by a civilian on a tugboat that captured one of the first tests in the sea of ​​the ship.

The battleship was scheduled to be completed in April 1945, but after changes ordered to convert it to an aircraft carrier and massive losses suffered at the hands of the Americans. Production of the Battle of the Philippine Sea was pushed to the limit. Japan feared that the United States would bomb the Japanese islands from its military bases in the Mariana Islands. A deadline was set for October, but additional workers could not be hired efficiently, putting pressure on existing workers. In uninterrupted work, the monstrous aircraft carrier was completed and ready for testing on November 19, 1944, not on the planned deadline, but close to it, the first launch taking place on October 8, possibly meeting the date limit, but the super aircraft carrier was not completed at that point.

With a length of 872 feet or 265 meters and a weight of sixty-nine thousand 151 metric tons with normal load, Shenana was the heaviest aircraft carrier at the time and could carry 2,400 crew and officers. The carrier was well armed with sixteen 40-caliber dual-purpose guns that had a range of sixteen thousand one hundred yards or fourteen thousand seven hundred meters. They could fire up to eight shots per minute. She also had fifteen triple double light cannon mounts that could fire around one hundred and ten shots. per minute intended to shoot down enemy aircraft, but recognized as slightly inadequate for shooting down high-speed moving targets due to poor movement, blinding muzzle flashes in strong vibrations, could also accommodate four dozen fighters for personal defense, but its main purpose It was to be an unusual hybrid support carrier that could carry weapons, fuel, and repair facilities for Japan's remaining carrier fleet.

She was huge and well equipped to defend herself against almost any air or surface attack. A bad omen. Shinato's gigantic sister battleships had been unlucky. Musashi had been shot down in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, while Yamato had suffered major damage when Sri Nana was commissioned, but before that, the new super carrier had an incident that caused superstitious workers to flee in panic and fear. On October 8, 1944, the ship was almost ready four months in advance. of the original plan that day, the caisson used as a dry dock that weighed five thousand tons gave way and cracked, giving way to the large amount of water that lifted the aircraft carrier and crashed it against the dock wall.

It has more than one hundred mooring lines running through the shenana was pushed back and forth by the movement of water until the water levels inside and outside the dock coincided, fortunately there were no casualties, only a few crew members were injured, the bow structure of the aircraft carrier was damaged and repairs They lasted until October 26, pushing the entire operation to replace wounded soldiers and construction workers, but no one wanted to take those jobs. The Japanese sailors were superstitious and, furthermore, the ship incident was a bad omen, a promise of something even worse to come, the existing crew and the new members forced. saw a blow to their morale by trusting that the large supercarrier would be lost Construction challenges when the Imperial Japanese Navy saw an urgent need for a heavily armored heavy aircraft carrier to carry reserve aircraft fuel and additional weaponry that made several questionable decisions the plan to leaving the battleships unfinished The hull of an aircraft carrier and Russian construction had a profoundly detrimental effect on the construction and testing of the new ship assigned to the ship's captain.

Toshio Abate was concerned about the level of completion and depth of the carrier's testing when his ship was commissioned from Yokosuka on 19 November 1944, ordered to depart on the 28th, and requested an extension which was denied. His executive officer expressed concern about the watertight compartments of his aircraft carrier. The High Command had not carried out standard air pressure tests to ensure that they were actually airtight. Of particular concern was an attack by a US submarine that caused seawater to enter the ship if the compartments were not as airtight as expected. Additionally, concerns were shared that unusual passages running the entire length of the carrier could limit its ability to respond quickly and conduct an operation. evacuation the crew was not instructed on emergency exit procedures which at this time was not a point of consideration for a bay the ship also had unsealed holes in electrical cable bulkheads ventilation ducts and some pipes apart from the exposed materials there were no emergency fire materials present and the fire pipes did not even have pumps, the crew, although consisting of experienced men, did not know how to use the portable pumps found on the ship, the crew of the supporting destroyers, the Esso , caused a trauma and Yukie were also exhausted.

After only three days of repairs just after the Battle of Leyte Gulf before embarking on this new mission, more signs of errors and insufficient controls emerged in the form of malfunctions throughout the ship, of the 12 boilers and the aircraft carrier only eight were operational and out of those only six were activated by American Pursuit since the request for an extension had been denied. Shinano departed for Curry, where the ship would undergo final fitting out before heading to the Philippines and Okinawa on 28 November at 6 p.m. captain third ah would be promoted to rear admiral for completing the mission they had a crew of 2,175 people in addition to 300 shipyard employees and 40 civilians the unfinished watertight doors were left open to facilitate movement and access through the complicated passages that were expected that passed shenana would carry 20 fighters, 20 bombers and seven scout planes to the Philippines but be careful, it would carry six Geneo ships and 50 kamikaze planes powered by oka rockets the trip to Korea was scheduled for 16 hours however the ship would only travel 400 three hours before It was detected by the Americans at 8:48 p.m.

Commander Joseph F. Enright of the submarine Archer Fish Sasha nah not on radar and decided to follow the ship on a parallel course. After an hour and a half of this chase, the crew of the Shinano detected that the enemy was following them. Shinano had the technology to outrun the enemy. submarine but was advancing in a zigzag to avoid other submarines slowing it down to the pace of Archer Fisher at 11 to 15 the ESO caused a broken formation to investigate the captain of the hobby submarine believed that the submarine was trying to move the destroyer away so that a Wolfpack could overpower them, ordered the ESO to create a back so they could try to outrun the archerfish as they sped away after a few hours they had to slow down to avoid problems with submarine overheating vs. supercarriers the archerfish had a sense of the stern nose direction and without rest they continued and took the captain ah they made a serious mistake and turned Shinano towards the southwest at 3:00 in the morning directly at the end of the submarine's path Submerged archer fish advancing towards the east and Commander Enright prepared his Shinano torpedoes practically gave the archer the perfect shot at 15 minutes after 3:00, Commander Enright had launched six of his torpedoes and fell four hundred feet deep into the ocean to avoid retaliation, four of the six torpedoes hit the aircraft carrier, the stern received the first hit which flooded the storage compartments and bedrooms the engine room was flooded by the second impact the third boiler room was flooded by the third impact as were the two boiler rooms adjoining rooms in the starboard air compressor room suffered the fourth hit an oil tank ruptured Captain Ave is said to have dismissed the damage as controllable in part because he was holding American torpedoes and disdained being weak and inaccurate, he kept the ship at speed maximum, which in turn only increased the flooding once the damage could no longer be ignored.

I changed course toward nearby Schiano Point around 4:20 In the morning, the captain ordered the port side tanks to be flooded to offset the weight of the flooded areas and keep the ship stable. This worked for a very short time and at 5:00 a.m. m. The 40 civilians were being evacuated via the destroyers supposedly doing so only because they were in the way of the crew, it was evident that the ship would sink when the engines shut down at 7:00 a.m. m., the captain attempted to have the Destroyers tow theaircraft carrier, but they could not support the enormous weight and the cable broke, the aircraft carrier lost all electrical power at 9:00 a.m. m. and shortly after the captain ordered the entire crew to abandon ship, the ship sank 65 miles from Japanese land.

Secret timing illuminated the attack, the aircraft carrier was erased from the naval registry and those rescued were kept isolated to prevent the press from finding out, the sinking was kept as secret as the construction, to such an extent that the Office of Naval Intelligence of The US at first did not believe that the commander and rights claimed to have sunk an aircraft carrier due to the At the insistence of a rights claim and the commander who presented a drawing of the ship he attacked, he received credit from the acting commander of the Pacific Fleet submarine force for sinking a high-level Ataka aircraft carrier, the United States would only discover the truth and award the commander and right with a Naval Cross once the war was over thanks for watching and thanks again to world of warships for sponsor this video and offer Duck Docks viewers this exclusive offer, click the link in the description below and use the invitation code battle stations 2020 to receive free bonuses as first-time wargame users