Talk:Standard Carrier Wo-Class/@comment-114.150.23.13-20150321140710/@comment-135.23.225.8-20150325153915

IJN specialty were night attacks with battleships, cruisers and destroyers, not carriers.

Carrier based night air raids were pioneered by the USN in WW2, after it became possible to fit radar into carrier based aircraft. Only the USN were successfully able to do this during WW2, and even then, the USN pilots had a very tough time trying to even get back, much less land, on the carriers they launched from.

Wo-class is probably Yorktown-class, particularly Enterprise, as she was ridiculously tough and got a hull reclassification from CV to CV(N) "Night". At one point her flight deck was severely damaged from a bomb, but was repaired so fast that the IJN thought it was another carrier.