Personnel politics shaped the development of Japanese carrier power. Many senior officers involved in Japanese naval aviation had a connection to Yonai, and the discussion then turns to extremely high aircrew standards and the loss of a generation of pilots who narrowly failed. Yamamoto's night-flying work at Kasumigaura appears as another clue to Yonai's quiet influence in aviation development.
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Yonai, Yamamoto, and IJN aviation training
The panel connects Yonai to Japanese naval aviation leadership, night-flying support, and a training system whose elite standards became hard to sustain in war.