Shōkaku could carry 70–80 aircraft. Her enhanced protection compared favorably to that of contemporary Allied aircraft carriers and enabled Shōkaku to...

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...

one cruiser, and three destroyers". Another Shōkaku scout aircraft quickly confirmed the sighting. The Shōkaku aircraft actually sighted and misidentified...

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...

of Fukuoka: Shōkaku-ji - Fukuoka City Economic, Tourism, and Cultural Affairs (in Japanese) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shōkaku-ji_(Fukuoka)...

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...

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...

"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"...

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...

Japanese aircraft prepare to take off from Shōkaku during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands...

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 /...

Japanese force of the carriers Shōkaku and Zuikaku until the next day. Aircraft from Lexington and Yorktown badly damaged Shōkaku, but the Japanese aircraft...

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...

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...

Akagi (1925) Kaga (1928) Ryūjō (1931) Sōryū (1935) Hiryū (1937) Shōkaku class Shōkaku (1939) Zuikaku (1939) Zuihō class Zuihō (1940) Shōhō (1941) Hiyō...

Amagi (Unfinished), Amagi-class battlecruiser Fleet carrier Hiryū Shōkaku, Shōkaku-class fleet carrier Unryū, Unryū-class fleet carrier Shinano, Yamato-class...

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...

Sōryū, Hiryū, Ryūjō, Kasuga Maru (renamed Taiyō ca. 31 August 1942), Shōkaku and Zuikaku, along with their aircraft units and a number of destroyers...

Japanese force of the carriers Shōkaku and Zuikaku until the next day. Aircraft from Lexington and Yorktown badly damaged Shōkaku, but the Japanese aircraft...

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...

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...

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...

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...

support force from Truk, led by Rear Admiral Chuichi Hara: Fleet carriers Shōkaku and Zuikaku Heavy cruisers Myōkō and Haguro Destroyers Asashio, Arashio...

A crashed Nakajima B5N2 "Kate" (tail marking "EI-306") from Shōkaku...

another, USS Enterprise, while suffering heavy damage in return to carriers Shōkaku and Zuihō. In strategic terms, however, it was ultimately a victory for...

Striking Force) of six aircraft carriers – Akagi, Kaga, Sōryū, Hiryū, Shōkaku, and Zuikaku – departed Hittokapu Bay on Etorofu (now Iterup) Island in...

August, the two carrier forces fought. The Japanese had two fleet carriers Shōkaku and Zuikaku and the light carrier Ryūjō, with 177 carrier-based aircraft...

their ship designs, including the light cruiser Ōyodo and the carriers Shōkaku and Taihō. A far more radical bulbous bow design solution was incorporated...

Operation MO was the Striking Force that consisted of the fleet carriers Shōkaku and Zuikaku. After covering the landings on Tulagi on 3 May, Shōhō headed...