The Japanese Navy used three anti-shipping tactics for their carrier-borne aircraft in World War 2, dive, torpedo and level bombing tactics. This video explains and visualizes the various attack patterns, combat procedures and weapon system. Military History Visualized provides a series of short narrative and visual presentations like documentaries based on academic literature or sometimes primary sources. Videos are intended as introduction to military history, but also contain a lot of details for history buffs. Since the aim is to keep the episodes short and comprehensive some details are often cut. » HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT MILITARY HISTORY VISUALIZED « (A) You can support my channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/mhv (B) You can also buy "Spoils of War" (merchandise) in the online shop: https://www.redbubble.com/people/mhvis/shop » SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS « facebook: https://www.facebook.com/milhistoryvisualized/ twitter: https://twitter.com/MilHiVisualized tumblr: http://militaryhistoryvisualized.tumblr.com/ » SOURCES « Evans, David C.; Peattie, Mark R.: Kaigun – Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy 1887-1941 Parshall, Janathan; Tully, Anthony: Shattered Sword. The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway Smith, Peter C.: Aichi D3A1/2 Val Francillon, Rene J.: Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War Tagaya, Osamu: The Imperial Japanese Air Forces, In: Higham & Harris: Why Air Forces Fail http://www.combinedfleet.com/torps.htm http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNJAP_161-45_3ns.php JICPOA Weekly Intelligence 20 Oct 1944, Japanese Aerial Tactics against ship Targets http://ww2data.blogspot.co.at/2016/02/imperial-japanese-navy-explosives-bombs.html » TOOL CHAIN « PowerPoint 2016, Word, Excel, Tile Mill, QGIS, Processing 3, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Audition, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Animate. » CREDITS & SPECIAL THX « Song: Ethan Meixsell - Demilitarized Zone