Kaga (1941) — Japanese Aircraft Carrier Model, 36 in
Kaga (1941) — Japanese Aircraft Carrier Model, 36 in
How big is it?
Length about 91 cm / 36.0 in. Drawn to scale; the model outline is a simplified shape.
Model details
- Size
- 36 in / 91 cm
- Construction
- Handcrafted
- Condition
- Fully assembled, ready to display
- Display
- Wooden base with brass nameplate
- Collection
- Battle Ship Models
- Item no.
- CM607
The larger edition of the Imperial Navy's biggest carrier, at 36 inches.
Specification
- 36 inches
- Handcrafted hull and superstructure
- Flight deck with markings, lifts and deck aircraft
- Island, downturned funnel, masts, boats and gun sponsons
- Mounted on a display base with nameplate
- Fully assembled
Five minutes at Midway
At about 10:20 on 4 June 1942, the Japanese carrier force had survived every American attack of the morning and was preparing a decisive strike. Within roughly five minutes, dive bombers from Enterprise and Yorktown fatally damaged Kaga, Akagi and Soryu.
The decks were crowded with fuelled and armed aircraft mid-rearming, and ordnance was stacked in the open rather than struck below. That is why the bomb hits were catastrophic rather than merely damaging.
Japan lost four fleet carriers and the core of its naval air crews in a single day, and never recovered the initiative.
The wreck
Located in 2019 by the research vessel Petrel, more than three miles beneath the Pacific.