Amagi-class battlecruiser, Akagi was converted to an aircraft carrier to comply with the Washington Naval Treaty in 1922.
Commissioned: 25 March 1927
Reconstructed to single flight deck [completed on 31 August 1938]
2nd Sino-Japanese War [1939~1941]
Attack on Pearl Harbor [7 December 1941]
Invasion of Rabaul in the Southwest Pacific [January 1942]
Bombing of Darwin, Australia [February 1942]
Indian Ocean Raid [March ~ April 1942] - Sinking of British heavy cruisers HMS Cornwall & HMS Dorsetshire; aircraft carrier HMS Hermes & Australian destroyer HMAS Vampire.
Battle of Midway [4~7 June 1942] - Akagi was scuttled by IJN destroyers on 5 June 1942 after severely damaged by dive bombers from USS Enterprise, USS Hornet & USS Yorktown. Total 4 IJN carriers was lost during Battle of Midway.