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Shokaku-class Aircraft Carrier (1941)

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Shokaku's sister ship Zuikaku as she looked at the time of the Battle of Pearl Harbor. Zuikaku narrowly escaped joining Shokaku on the bottom of the Pacific the same date; submarine U.S.S. Thresher had sighted her and was about to fire torpedoes when her periscope was spotted by a Kate with Cdr Fuchida Mitsuo aboard. Fuchida frantically signals the carrier, which immediately turns to evade. Zuikaku serves her country well at the Battle of the Indian Ocean, carrying VADM Ozawa's flag. Her planes are instrumental in decimating VADM Sir James Somerville's carrier force, sinking carriers Indomitable and Formidable, cruisers, Cornwall, Dorsetshire, and Enterprise, and destroyer Vampire. However, crushing loss came this day as well when Cdr Fuchida's plane is shot down by a Fulmar. Zuikaku survived until the Battle of the Coral Sea when she was sunk by aircraft from carrier Saratoga.
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