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