By nightfall of May 6, the fleet carriers, USS Lexington (CV-2) and USS Yorktown (CV-5), attempted to find the Japanese fleet ...

Zuikaku represented the zenith of pre-war Japanese carrier development. Along with her sister Shokaku, Zuikaku filled out Kido Butai with the addition of two large, fast, modern carriers.

To protect that amphibious force, Japan sent the aircraft carriers Shokaku and Zuikaku to patrol the adjacent Coral Sea. The United States navy carriers Lexington and Yorktown sailed out to meet them.

In the end, the US had lost three aircraft carriers, two destroyers, several hundred aircraft, ... The Zuikaku under attack during the Battle of Cape Engaño on Oct. 25th, 1944.

Japan decided to refit its Izumo-class light carriers to operate the F-35B stealth fighter. ... (which for the sake of convenience we will call “Shokaku” and “Zuikaku”) might look like.

Navigating through a dark, Pacific morning under strict radio silence the Japanese aircraft carriers Zuikaku, Kaga, Soryu, Hiryu, Shokaku and task force flagship Akagi came about into the wind on ...

The Santa Barbara resident and Navy ace, who died last week at age 91, eventually did just that, dropping his own bomb on the Zuikaku, the last Japanese aircraft carrier remaining from the ...