Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-73.220.89.40-20150318192417/@comment-26574811-20160119102553

99.5.125.253 wrote: In what world were the Essex class inferior to any carrier design Japan had? He was mostly referring to the Yorktown class, but yea, they can't be inferior to Hiryu anyway.

Japanese are more creative on ship designs than the Americans, I'll give them that, but probably not better overall. Remember how bad their damage control was? That was more than the issue of damage control training, ship design is to blame as well (think about poor Taiho... and Akagi.).