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 ...

The aircraft carrier burns and sinks after being abandoned ... turned back just before they would have sighted Shokaku and Zuikaku. But with the Japanese, the striking force commander, Adm.

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 ...

Fleet carriers Shokaku and Zuikaku offered mobile support. On May 7, 1942, Shokaku's and Zuikaku's D3A1 dive bombers sank the U.S. destroyer Sims and so badly damaged the fleet tanker Neosho that ...

Perhaps the biggest Japanese loss was the fleet carrier Zuikaku, the flagship of the Japan's Northern Force, which had also launched planes during the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Here's a ...

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 ...

Due to bomb damage and the loss of planes, neither Shokaku nor its sister carrier, Zuikaku, was available the next month for the Battle of Midway. Yorktown, on the other hand, was repaired in time ...

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 ...

When the time came for war in 1941, the Japanese devised a mission which included all six of the nation's first-line aircraft carriers, Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, Hiryu, Shokaku and Zuikaku.

Fleet carriers Shokaku and Zuikaku offered mobile support. On May 7, 1942, Shokaku’s and Zuikaku’s D3A1 dive bombers sank the U.S. destroyer Sims and so badly damaged the fleet tanker Neosho ...