Akagi Photographs | World War II Database

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Aircraft carrier Akagi at Kure Naval Arsenal, Japan, 6 Apr 1925	Carrier Akagi and battleship Nagato at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan, 15 Aug 1927	Carrier Akagi off Osaka, Japan with B1M and B2M aircraft on board, 15 Oct 1934	Akagi underway, circa 1927-1935; note the triple flight deck

Japanese pilots Masao Asai and Masao Sato aboard carrier Akagi in the East China Sea, 1938-1939; note A5M fighter in background	Akagi in Sukumo Bay, Kochi Prefecture, Japan, 27 Apr 1939	Kirishima and Akagi in Tsukumo Bay, Japan, 27 Apr 1939	Japanese carriers Zuikaku (foreground), Kaga (center), and Akagi (background) underway toward Hitokappu Bay, Iturup, Kurile Islands, Nov 1941; note Zuikaku's anti-aircraft armament

A6M2 Zero fighter aboard carrier Akagi prior or during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec 1941	Carrier Akagi, battleship Hiei, and battleship Kirishima in the Pacific Ocean en route toward US Territory of Hawaii, 6 Dec 1941	A Zero fighter took off from Akagi for the attack on Pearl Harbor in the US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941	D3A dive bomber taking off from carrier Akagi to join the second wave of Pearl Harbor attackers, 7 Dec 1941

D3A1 dive bombers preparing to take off from Akagi to attack Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941; carrier Soryu in background	D3A1 dive bombers warming up aboard carrier Akagi, off Hawaiian Islands, 7 Dec 1941	Japanese Navy pilot Lieutenant Zenji Abe posing in front of a A6M2 Zero fighter aboard Akagi, late 1941-early 1942	B5N1 taking off from carrier Akagi, circa Mar-Apr 1942

Aircraft carrier Akagi shortly after leaving Port Stirling, Celebes for the Indian Ocean, 26 Mar 1942; note B5N torpedo bombers on flight deck	Flight deck of Akagi as seen from an aircraft that just took off from the carrier, Apr 1942	D3A dive bomber taking off from carrier Akagi, Indian Ocean, 5 Apr 1942; the single vertical red stripe toward the rear end of fuselage identified this aircraft as from Akagi	Akagi and a destroyer under B-17 attack at Midway, shortly after 0800, 4 Jun 1942