Sunburst by Mark Peattie

Author:Mark Peattie [Peattie, Mark R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781612514369
Publisher: Naval Institute Press

Photo. 6-1. Comdr. Genda Minoru (1904–89)

Yet Genda Minoru’s doctrinal discovery, if such it was,57 induced the Combined Fleet to undertake a number of operational experiments in the concentration of carriers. Early in 1941 the Kaga, Sōryū, and Hiryū combined to form a temporary training unit to perfect such operations. While these trials had some success, the absence of an overall carrier commander and the lack of a standardized training program for the fleet’s carrier divisions pointed up the need for a permanent carrier command.58 Up to that point, the navy’s carriers, as they were placed in commission, had been assigned to carrier divisions—generally two or three carriers to a division—and these divisions allotted to different fleets. Not only did both fleets and carrier divisions change from time to time, but there was little effort to work them together. Generally, fleet commanders—most of them in the battleship tradition—and even carrier division commanders were content with this arrangement, one that left carriers to function as important, but strictly adjunct, components of the battle line.

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