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Surprisingly, the very nature of the landing light array dismisses
Akagi outright. Akagi and Hiryû are the best-documented of
the carriers at Midway, and we have very good 1:400-scale plans
of Akagi taken from a Polish work on the ship. These plans clearly
show that Akagi had four landing light arrays—two forward,
and two aft.
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The forward arrays were attached to platforms fairly far forward on
the flight deck, which were not part of any 25mm gallery structure.
And while the aft arrays were mounted aboard the 25mm galleries, they
were affixed to the gallery wall itself, rather than the apex of a
25mm gun tub. Thus, according to the best plans we have available,
Akagi can be eliminated from consideration. |
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