Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/mhv In June 1942 the most modern aircraft carriers in the US Navy and IJN were the USS Enterprise and the HIJMS Zuikaku. This video gives you an overview on the dimensions, defensive capabilities and aircraft of these Yorktown and Shokaku class carriers. ---------------- Credits & Special Thanks ---------------- Special thanks and credit to various people on the forums that helped me out with great answers to my questions and/or providing further information : On reddit: Thefourthmaninaboat, ResearcherAtLarge, Studdbeefpile and DBHT14. https://www.reddit.com/r/WarCollege/comments/4789wo/question_shokaku_vs_yorktown_displacement_values/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Warships/comments/4789d2/question_shokaku_vs_yorktown_displacement_values/ https://www.reddit.com/r/WarCollege/comments/47qc1n/midway_sheer_luck_or_better_doctrine_wildenberg/ On the paradox forum - https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php Director and Admiral Piett. These were private conversations, hence no links. ---------------- Notes on Accuracy & “Methodology” ---------------- (1) To put it simply, when it comes to data about WW2 ships everything seems to be a bit off. Many sources differ. I have like 3 different crew values for the USS Enterprise, basically every book, website and Wikipedia article has one or several different values. (2) Furthermore, thanks to various commenters on reddit and the paradox forums I know that this is very common. Just to give an example, take a look at this very well illustrated and sourced forum post: http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=12986&start=40#p228632 (3) The same goes for articles (see sources: Wildenberg and the link). (4) So, I tried to use only one source for each value in order to keep the data as clean as possible, also I did some cross-referencing, but take everything with a grain of salt. (5) Mid 1942 is also the general “cut-off date”, thus proximity fuses,