Chūyō (冲鷹, "hawk which soars") was a Taiyō-class escort carrier originally built as Nitta Maru (新田 丸), the first of her class of three passenger-cargo...

with her sister Chūyō and the light carrier Zuihō ; the carriers were escorted by the heavy cruiser Maya and four destroyers. Chūyō and Un'yō had aboard...

Taiyō class escort carrier Unyō (liner converted to escort carrier in 1941) Chūyō (liner converted to escort carrier in 1942) Taiyō (liner converted to escort...

000 yd (8,200 m). The group consisted of the Japanese aircraft carrier Chūyō, a cruiser, and two destroyers. Despite high seas whipped up by typhoon...

remained ashore. On 30 November, Zuihō, together with the escort carriers Chūyō and Unyō, departed Truk for Japan, escorted by four destroyers. The Americans...

she was accompanied by Un'yō. The following month, Un'yō was replaced by Chūyō. En route to Truk, she was again torpedoed by an American submarine; this...

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Dec: Fort Athabaska, John Bascom, John Harvey, Norlom, Testbank 4 Dec: Chūyō, Kembu Maru 11 Dec: V 602 Richard C. Krogmann 12 Dec: HMS Holcombe, HMS Tynedale...

August 1944 Un'yō (1942) – sunk by U.S. submarine USS Barb, September 1944 Chūyō (1942) – sunk by U.S. submarine USS Sailfish, December 1943 Unryū class...

Japanese prisoner of war camps in Asia aboard the Nita Maru (later renamed Chūyō). Many of those that stayed were those that were too badly wounded, and...