Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "Learning about the Imperial Japanese Navy - Introductory book recommendations" video.

Rather than paying exorbitant prices for OOP books, I would urge people to check their public library. The library in my township is small, but it can transfer in books from other libraries around the state, and I can access books on line via Hoopla. The library transferred in "Warships of the IJN" for me, among others, and I have accessed books on German battleships and Friedman on Naval Weapons via Hoopla. And it's all free. Some of the information on Japanese ships can be fragmentary. For instance, there are just enough gaps in the narrative for me to not be entirely sure whether the Kiis were intended to be a distinct class of battleships, or a proposal to up-armor the Amagis on the slipway. The only time I came up entirely empty at the library was in trying to learn why Nuffield chose the Liberty engine for the Cruiser tanks they built.
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@bkjeong4302 I remember my grandfather talking about how the Japanese used a little latch, rather than the large, and heavy, mechanisms the USN used. I'm thinking weight was the factor, with the IJN choosing to maintain aircraft performance, at the expense of not carrying quite as many aircraft. wrt, the folding wings on dive bombers, the multi-G stress was a consideration. That being said, while the SBD did not have folding wings, the SB2U and SB2C did have folding wings. I found a pic on-line of three SB2Us in the hangar of Bearn, with their wings folded. The Skua and navalized Stuka also had folding wings.
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