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