After surviving a kamikaze attack, she returned to Great Britain and eventually served as a training carrier before being scrapped in 1957. Zuikaku represented the zenith of pre-war Japanese ...

and Zuikaku. While other Axis powers frequently used carriers, the Nazis never did, but not for lack of trying. Before World War II even started, Adolf Hitler approved of a plan to manufacture ...

In late April 1942, plans were made for Townsville to be targeted by an air raid consisting of more than 120 aircraft launched by Japan’s two largest carriers, Shokaku and Zuikaku. These were ...

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 ...