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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2006 Japan laid down the first of two fourteen-thousand-ton Hyuga-class helicopter destroyers at IHI Marine United Yokohama Shipyard. In 2012, Japan laid down the twenty-thousand-ton Izumo, a ...

Shōkaku and Zuikaku Air Group Kōdōchōsho; Senshi Sōsho, vol. 49, Nantō Hōmen Kaigun Sakusen (1) [Southeast Area Naval Operations (1)] (Tokyo: BKS, 1971), pp. 271–74 and plate 3. 13. No long-range ...

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 ...