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I'm frankly really surprised that they even bothered having lifeboat during the final years of the war.

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Excellent work Alex, this certainly supersedes my previous drawings of the Hosho. Excellent details around the funnels too.

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Here's a (poor) photo showing the enlarged flight deck she featured later in life:
http://ww2db.com/images/ship_hosho10.jpg
And here is a good line drawing of her during the same period:
http://smmlonline.com/articles/hosho/hosho05.jpg

The site doesn't allow you to link directly to their pictures, so here's a link to the site itself.
http://ww2db.com/photo.php?source=all&c ... ype_id=109

Edit: Now with an actual link

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Sadly, there aren't too many photos of her post-war. Here's one of the better ones:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... t_deck.jpg

FWIW,

-Matt

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I posted a link to this thread in an IJN-related message forum, and my good friend sent me this rare pic. It's Hosho at some point in 1946.

Hope this helps!

-Matt

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