Shōkaku could carry 70–80 aircraft. Her enhanced protection compared favorably to that of contemporary Allied aircraft carriers and enabled Shōkaku to...
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The Shōkaku class (翔鶴型, Shōkaku-gata) consisted of two aircraft carriers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1930s. Completed shortly...
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one cruiser, and three destroyers". Another Shōkaku scout aircraft quickly confirmed the sighting. The Shōkaku aircraft actually sighted and misidentified...
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Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku (category Shōkaku-class aircraft carriers)
alongside Shōkaku, Kaga, and Akagi (Sōryū and Hiryū departed to attack Wake Island), and she was drydocked from the 30th to January 3. Meeting Shōkaku on the...
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of Fukuoka: Shōkaku-ji - Fukuoka City Economic, Tourism, and Cultural Affairs (in Japanese) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shōkaku-ji_(Fukuoka)...
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After the 5th was dissolved, Shōkaku and Zuikaku would fight on for several years, but neither would survive the war. Shōkaku was sunk by the American submarine...
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divided into three groups. The "main body" contained the Japanese carriers Shōkaku and Zuikaku, the light carrier Ryūjō, and a screening force of one heavy...
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The MO Operation featured a force of 60 ships led by the two carriers: Shōkaku and Zuikaku, one light carrier (Shōhō), six heavy cruisers, three light...
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"Main Body" of Shōkaku, Zuikaku, and Zuihō plus one heavy cruiser and eight destroyers, commanded by Vice Admiral Chūichi Nagumo aboard Shōkaku; and the "Vanguard"...
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Japanese aircraft prepare to take off from Shōkaku during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands...
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Japanese force of the carriers Shōkaku and Zuikaku until the next day. Aircraft from Lexington and Yorktown badly damaged Shōkaku, but the Japanese aircraft...
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the 1939 4th Supplementary Programme. Her design was that of a modified Shōkaku. Under the Modified Fleet Replenishment Program of 1942, Taihō was to be...
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June, she caught the carrier Shōkaku recovering planes, and quickly fired a spread of five torpedoes, with four hits. Shōkaku sank at 11°50′N 137°57′E /...
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A6M Zero fighter aircraft and other aircraft preparing for takeoff on the aircraft carrier Shōkaku on 7 December 1941, for the attack on Pearl Harbor...
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Takeo Takagi, including the Fifth Carrier Division (the large new carriers Shōkaku and Zuikaku), to support the effort to seize the islands of Tulagi and...
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Akagi (1925) Kaga (1928) Ryūjō (1931) Sōryū (1935) Hiryū (1937) Shōkaku class Shōkaku (1939) Zuikaku (1939) Zuihō class Zuihō (1940) Shōhō (1941) Hiyō...
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the Japanese light carrier Shōhō had been sunk, while the fleet carrier Shōkaku had been severely damaged and was in drydock for months of repair. Although...
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following Japanese aircraft carriers: Chitose, Chiyoda, Hiyō, Junyō, Shinyo, Shōkaku, Sōryū, Taihō, Unryū, Unyō and Zuikaku. The D4Y1-C reconnaissance aircraft...
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Amagi (Unfinished), Amagi-class battlecruiser Fleet carrier Hiryū Shōkaku, Shōkaku-class fleet carrier Unryū, Unryū-class fleet carrier Shinano, Yamato-class...
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on the 25,675-ton carrier Shōkaku by about noon. The submarine fired a spread of six torpedoes, three of which struck Shōkaku on her starboard side. Badly...
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Striking Force) of six aircraft carriers – Akagi, Kaga, Sōryū, Hiryū, Shōkaku, and Zuikaku – departed Hittokapu Bay on Etorofu (now Iterup) Island in...
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carrier Shōkaku and was assigned as a senior flight division leader (senior buntaichō) of the dive-bomber squadron. In late August 1942 Shōkaku participated...
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Santa Cruz Islands order of battle (section US first wave (Hornet): bomb hits on Shokaku, torpedo misses on Tone)
another, USS Enterprise, while suffering heavy damage in return to carriers Shōkaku and Zuihō. In strategic terms, however, it was ultimately a victory for...
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carriers Shōkaku and Zuikaku to Truk, and onwards to Rabaul to cover landings of Japanese forces at Rabaul and Kavieng. She returned with Shōkaku from Palau...
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Lexington and Yorktown fought against the fleet carriers Zuikaku and Shōkaku and the light carrier Shōhō in this battle, in an attempt to halt a Japanese...
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Sōryū, Hiryū, Ryūjō, Kasuga Maru (renamed Taiyō ca. 31 August 1942), Shōkaku and Zuikaku, along with their aircraft units and a number of destroyers...
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A crashed Nakajima B5N2 "Kate" (tail marking "EI-306") from Shōkaku...
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carrier Lexington and damaging Yorktown. In return the Americans damaged Shōkaku. Although Zuikaku was left undamaged, aircraft and personnel losses to...
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Japanese force of the carriers Shōkaku and Zuikaku until the next day. Aircraft from Lexington and Yorktown badly damaged Shōkaku, but the Japanese aircraft...
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flight deck of his carrier Shōkaku was damaged in the battle, he was forced to land on Zuikaku instead. After the battle, Shōkaku was sent to be repaired...
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