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Shōkaku (****anese: 翔鶴,
meaning "Soaring Crane") was the lead ship of her
class of two
aircraft carriers built for the
Imperial ****anese Navy (IJN) shortly...
- The
Shōkaku class (翔鶴型,
Shōkaku-gata)
consisted of two
aircraft carriers built for the
Imperial ****anese Navy (IJN) in the late 1930s.
Completed shortly...
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attacked the other's
fleet carriers,
leaving the ****anese
fleet carrier Shōkaku damaged, the U.S.
fleet carrier Lexington critically damaged and later...
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Zuikaku (****anese: 瑞鶴,
meaning "Au****ious Crane") was the
second and last
Shōkaku-class
aircraft carrier built for the
Imperial ****anese Navy (IJN) shortly...
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Shōkaku-ji (正覚寺) is a
Rinzai temple in Jōnan-ku, ****uoka, ****an. Its
honorary sangō
prefix is
Higashiaburayama (東油山). It is also
known as
Aburayama Kannon...
- ****anese
aircraft prepare to take off from
Shōkaku during the
Battle of the
Santa Cruz Islands...
- The MO
Operation featured a
force of 60
ships led by the two carriers:
Shōkaku and Zuikaku, one
light carrier (Shōhō), six
heavy cruisers,
three light...
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resupply convoy to
Guadalcanal and
almost engaging the ****anese
carriers Shōkaku and Zuikaku,
which withdrew just
before the two
adversaries came into range...
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divided into
three groups. The "main body"
contained the ****anese
carriers Shōkaku and Zuikaku, the
light carrier Ryūjō, and a
screening force of one heavy...
- A6M Zero
fighter aircraft and
other aircraft preparing for
takeoff on the
aircraft carrier Shōkaku on 7
December 1941, for the
attack on
Pearl Harbor...
