(March 6, 2018 at 12:11 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The Japanese converted two battle cruises to carriers, also, Akagi and Kaga. Only Saratoga survived the war but she was frequently laid up for the first couple of years of the war. You'd think that the additional armor on a battle cruiser would have improved their survivability but no.
It wasn't all applied, of course, and some that was applied was removed to effect the conversion to a carrier, especially in the hangar area.
https://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pre-war/1922/nav_lim.html
