| 词条 | Japanese aircraft carrier Akitsu Maru | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Design featuresAkitsu Maru was a passenger liner taken over before completion by the Imperial Japanese Army. The ship was fitted with a flight deck above the hull, but had no hangar so the aircraft were stored below the flight deck on the original main deck. Conventional aircraft were able to fly off from her deck but could not land aboard due to the short deck length and lack of landing mechanisms, although in July 1944 KX arresting gear was fitted on the flight deck. The Kokusai Ki-76 and Kayaba Ka-1 were flown off Akitsu Maru, as the former was a small, slow aircraft that could land on its short deck and the latter was an autogyro which could even more easily land on a short deck without assistance. She could also carry 27 {{sclass2-|Daihatsu|landing craft}}. Akitsu Maru{{'}}s planned role was to provide aircover during amphibious and landing operations; in practice the ship was essentially an aircraft ferry.[2]FateOn Thursday 18 November 1943 Akitsu Maru, while in company with the torpedo boat {{ship|Japanese torpedo boat|Tomozuru||2}}, was torpedoed off the entrance to Manila Bay by the United States submarine {{USS|Crevalle|SS-291|2}}. Crevalle incorrectly reported Akitsu Maru as sunk.[3] Akitsu Maru was sunk by the United States submarine {{USS|Queenfish|SS-393|2}} on 15 November 1944.[4] There were 2,046 men, mainly of the IJA's 64th Infantry Regiment, who were killed.[5] Her sister ship {{ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Nigitsu Maru||2}} was sunk by the submarine {{USS|Hake|SS-256|2}} on 12 January 1944, with the loss of 574 men.[6]See also
Notes1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite book |last=Gardiner |author2=Chesnau |title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1922–1946 |pages=213 }} 2. ^{{cite book |title=Fleets of World War II |last=Worth |pages=176 }} 3. ^{{cite book |title=The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II |last=Cressman |pages=193–194 }} 4. ^{{cite book |title=United States Submarine Operations in World War II |last=Roscoe and Voge |pages=416 }} 5. ^http://www.combinedfleet.com/Mayasan_t.htm 6. ^http://www.combinedfleet.com/Nigitsu_t.htm References
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