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Step aboard the IJN Ibuki, the Imperial Japanese Navy's ultimate ghost ship—a warship with the strangest story of the entire Pacific War. Conceived as the "perfect" heavy cruiser and later reborn as a high-speed aircraft carrier, the Ibuki was a vessel of immense potential. Yet, she was destined to become a 20,000-ton monument to failure, a ship that was 80% complete but 100% useless.
This documentary uncovers the tragic and ironic history of a warship that died twice without ever firing a shot or launching a plane. First, her dream as a cruiser was annihilated by the shocking Japanese defeat at the Battle of Midway. Then, her second life as a carrier was slowly strangled by the total collapse of Japan's war industry, the decimation of its veteran pilots, and the relentless advance of Allied forces.
Join us as we explore the fatal flaws in Japanese naval doctrine, the desperate "Frankenstein's Navy" of emergency conversions, and the brutal mathematics of a war of industrial attrition. The story of the Ibuki is the story of the Imperial Japanese Navy in microcosm: brilliant engineering shackled to a losing strategy, and a desperate race against a reality that had already sealed its fate. From the slipways of Kure to the scrap yards of Sasebo, this is the complete history of the ship that never was.