Akagi Bridge W/ Flight deck 1/35

Akagi (Japanese: 赤城) was an aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. The "Akagi" (literally: Red Castle) was named after a volcano in the Kanto region of Japan. She was built in Kure, initially as a battlecruiser of the Amagi class. However, due to the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, she was not allowed to be completed as a battlecruiser. The ship was therefore completed as an aircraft carrier with three flight decks, so that direct launches could also be made from the lower hangar. Her sister ship Amagi was lost in the Kanto earthquake. After Japan denounced the Naval Treaty in December 1934, during a conversion between 1935 and 1938, the three flight decks of Akagi were replaced by a single flight deck, spanning almost the entire length of the ship.

The Akagi played a role in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. During the Battle of Midway, the Akagi was the flagship of Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, who also commanded the three other aircraft carriers - Soryu, Hiryu and Kaga - and the attack fleet. During the battle, the Akagi was damaged beyond repair and sunk by Japanese ships on June 4, 1942. The wreck was found in 2019 at a depth of 5.5 kilometers and photographed by an underwater research team in September 2023.