During World War II the Japanese, not the U.S., had the biggest aircraft carrier ever built. But they did not have her for very long. Last week Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood Jr., wartime commander of the Pacific Fleet's submarines, told the story.
The Japanese took a battleship of the Yamato class while still under construction, converted her to a carrier, named her the Shinano. At 59,000 tons, she was 14,000 tons larger than the Midway class, the U.S. Navy's mightiest.
On Nov. 29, 1944, she was under way on her trial run....
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