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	1944: PHILIPPINE SEA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Battle of the Philippine Sea, 19-20 June 1944, was the last of the major carrier aircraft battles of the Pacific War, a series of battles that started in the Coral Sea in 1942.
		Japanese scout planes found the American carriers at about 1530 on 18 June 1944, but Ozawa feared that darkness would be too challenging for his inexperienced airmen and postponed the initial strike until dawn on 19 June.
		Late on the 19th, Ozawa's fleet withdrew to the northwest to regroup and recover the aircraft expected to be flying in from Guam.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_history_ww2_ops_battles_1944philippsea.php (1214 words)

	Azusa tokubetsu kougekitai (Azusa special attack unit)
		The Japanese Navy hoped to sink American carriers anchored at Ulithi Atoll by a long-range kamikaze attack from the Japanese mainland.
		Japanese Army soldiers at the garrison on Yap mistakenly shot two and seriously wounded one of the crew of one plane that made a forced landing on Yap.
		Japanese Saiun reconnaissance planes from Truk flew over Ulithi the next day on March 12, but they observed no missing carriers and concluded that the mission had not succeeded.
	wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu /kamikaze/books/japanese/azusa (1544 words)

	Japanese Navy Ships--Zuikaku in the Battle off Cape Engano
		During the Japanese Navy's "Sho-Go" operation that produced the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Zuikaku was flagship of Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa, commander of the operation's northern force.
		Despite their role as "bait", the Japanese carriers sighted Halsey first and launched a strike in the late morning of 24 October.
		Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku underway early in the action, while she was still capable of making good speed.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/japan/japsh-xz/zuikak-k.htm (1027 words)

	Carrier, HMS, Hermes, Ark Royal, Eagle, Dasher, escort, Soryu, Shokaku, Zuikaku, Doolittle, Enterprise
		The convoy carried on, still with 13 of the original 14 merchantmen afloat and its close escort of four cruisers and 12 destroyers.
		Since Operation 'Excess' in January 1941, two aircraft carriers, four cruisers, 16 destroyers and five submarines had been lost in the many attempts to supply and reinforce the island, and in the heavy air attacks launched against the George Cross island.
		Japanese losses were two battleships, one carrier, a cruiser and six destroyers.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsCarriers2.htm (4978 words)

	Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		She was caught and sunk near Ceylon (Sri Lanka) by Japanese carrier aircraft during the Japanese carrier raid into the Indian Ocean in spring 1942.
		HMS Furious, Aircraft Carrier 1918 - A carrier with an island in the middle of the flight deck.
		This model of the original carrier for the USN was scratch-built and donated to the museum by CDR Josiah "Cy" Kirby, USNR (Ret).
	www.steelnavy.com /gallery_aircraft_carriers.htm (4009 words)

	Aircraft Carrier, Glory, Formidable, Illustrious, Core, Santee, Bogue, Card
		Japanese major fleet base of Truk only 700 miles away in the Caroline Islands, ships and carrier aircraft of Fifth Fleet attacked, and together with patrolling submarines sank three cruisers, four destroyers and much shipping in mid-month.
		The carrier aircraft were knocked out of the sky by their better-equipped and trained US counterparts in the 'Great Marianas Turkey Shoot'.
		In fact the Japanese were about to lose three battleships, four carriers (admittedly with few aircraft on board), 10 cruisers and nine destroyers in the battles and actions known collectively as the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsCarriers3.htm (5340 words)

	Japanese Navy Ships--Zuikaku (Aircraft Carrier, 1941-1944)
		During the rest of 1942, Zuikaku was an important component of the Japanese forces involved in the Guadalcanal campaign, taking part in the carrier battles of the Eastern Solomons in August and Santa Cruz Islands in October.
		That action, which cost Japan three more carriers, hundreds of planes and most of the rest of her trained carrier pilots, reduced her once-irresistable aircraft carrier fleet to a state of virtual impotence.
		In October 1944, Zuikaku led the remaining Japanese carriers in the role of "bait" to divert U.S. carrier planes away from the surface forces that were attempting to attack U.S. ships off Leyte, in the Philippines.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/japan/japsh-xz/zuikaku.htm (542 words)

	Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zuikaku (Japanese: ずいかく Kanji: 瑞鶴 "fortunate crane") was a Shōkaku-class aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
		Her planes took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor that formally brought the United States into the Pacific War, and she fought in several of the most important naval battles of the war, finally being sunk in the battle off Cape Engaño.
		She launched her remaining aircraft in an ineffective strike against the U.S. Third Fleet: most were shot down by the American covering patrols, but a few stragglers made it safely to Luzon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Zuikaku (864 words)

	Informat.io on Japanese Aircraft Carrier Shokaku
		Along with her sister ship Zuikaku, she is most famous for taking part in many key engagements of the World War II Pacific Theatre, including the battles of Pearl Harbor and the Coral Sea.
		She and her sister ship Zuikaku, forming the Japanese 5th Carrier Division, acquired their aircraft shortly before the Pearl Harbor attack and were ready just in time for it.
		With Zuikaku, Shokaku joined the Kido Butai (Pearl Harbor attack force) and participated in Japan's series of early wartime naval offensives, including an attack on Rabaul in January 1942, and the Battle of the Coral Sea in May.
	www.informat.io /?title=Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Shokaku (547 words)

	Paintings #2: The Pacific Air War
		Four Japanese carriers, a cruiser, and a number of destroyers were sunk during this battle.
		Vought OS2U Kingfisher The Vought Kingfisher was an observation aircraft whose intended role was as a gunnery spotter for the cruisers and battleships from which it operated.
		This Oscar is carrying a 500-pound bomb towards the burning U.S. carrier Franklin during the invasion of Okinawa in April of 1945.
	www.daveswarbirds.com /navalwar/painting2.htm (1859 words)

	Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Shokaku (Japanese: 翔鶴 shōkaku meaning "flying crane") was an aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the lead ship of her class.
		She and her sister ship Zuikaku" class="a-lk">Zuikaku forming the Japanese 5th Carrier Division, acquired their aircraft shortly before the Pearl Harbor attack and were ready just in time it.
		With Zuikaku, Shokaku joined the Pearl Harbor attack fleet, and then participated in Japan's series of early wartime naval offensives, including an attack on Rabaul in January 1942, and the Battle of the Coral Sea in May.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=65569 (558 words)

	THIS IS THE HISTORY OF THE DESTROYER USS BROWN DD 546
		Every conceivable type of naval activity was represented: carrier aviation battles, surface engagements, bitterly fought night-fights, the largest amphibious landings of the entire war, and the stealthy, brutal battles waged by and against submarines.
		The Japanese positioned colored flags in the lagoon to mark the range of the landing force and to register their howitzers on the landing force from locations behind Mt. Fina Susu.
		The last great aircraft carrier battle of the war was fought in the vicinity of the Marianas on June 19, 1944 when 15 U. carriers and 950 planes struck a Japanese force of 5 carriers and 550 aircraft.
	www.usd230.k12.ks.us /PICTT/paraphernalia/donated/USSBrown.html (15399 words)

	Carrier Battles in the Pacific - 1942 ... and other WWII battles in the Pacific (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The combined strength of the two carriers amounted to less than 150 aircraft, and Fletcher could not count on 300-odd land-based planes of USAAF and RAAF under overall command of General Douglas MacArthur, while Admiral Inoyue had the 25th Air Flotilla at Rabaul under his command.
		Japanese planes had the advantage of the clear skies over the Lexington and Yorktown just as American planes had the day before, but Japanese utilized their advantage better.
		Furthermore, Shokaku and Zuikaku were out of war for some time, and did not take part in the Battle of Midway, that took place four weeks after the Coral Sea, and their presence in that battle would have been crucial.
	www.everblue.net /1942/coralsea.php (4845 words)

	U.S. Navy Archives: Naval Air War In The Pacific
		Japanese aircraft carrier Shoho is torpedoed by U.S. carrier planes
		Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku is attacked by U.S. carrier planes
		Japanese battleship Yamato is hit by a bomb near her forward main turret.
	www.daveswarbirds.com /navalwar/archives.htm (2122 words)

	World Aircraft Carriers List: Japanese Aircraft Carriers
		Bombed by US aircraft at Midway 4 June 1942; munitions and fuel exploded on the flight deck and hangar deck, leading to uncontrollable fires; ship was scuttled 5 June 1942.
		She would have carried a mid-size air group of her own, plus spare aircraft, parts and supplies for the fleet carriers, enabling those ships to resupply without returning to Japan.
		Conversion was typical of the light carriers, but with a single hangar, one half the boilers removed for fuel storage, and a relatively large island.
	www.hazegray.org /navhist/carriers/ijn_cv.htm (5450 words)

	Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Zuikaku (空母瑞鶴) is a Japanese aircraft carrier that took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
		It was the last of the Pearl Harbor carriers to be destroyed.
		See also : World War II, List of ships of the Japanese Navy
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/j/ja/japanese_aircraft_carrier_zuikaku.html (73 words)

	Welcome to Adobe GoLive 6
		The Japanese pilots of the five zero fighters made the mistake of attacking the two B-17 airplanes by making firing passes on the B-17 airplanes by splitting up and pressing their attack separately.
		They went out and bombed the Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku and upon returning from their bombing mission, the pilots informed Admiral McCain that they had sunk the Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku, causing Admiral McCain to write a dispatch telling his command chief that his B-17 aircraft had sunk the carrier Zuikaku.
		The Japanese did finish the new air field at Munda on the Island of New Georgia with a lot of difficulty before our South Pacific forces landed at Munda in 1943, when we captured the island and used this Japanese airfield for our land based aircraft squadron operations in the Solomon Islands in 1943-1944.
	www.navyphoto.org /Carol/chap12.html (4433 words)

	sell.com classifieds : Dragon Wings A6M2 Zero Fighter Type 22 for sale in Portland (2NPBP)
		This is a beautifully detailed die-cast model of the Japanese IJN AIRCRAFT CARRIER "ZUIKAKU" A6M2 ZERO FIGHTER that is in the colors as would have been seen on TRUK ISLAND, 1943.
		This finely detailed diecast model portrays the A6M2 Zero Type 21/22 Fighter in the livery of the Imperial Japanese Navy Aircraft Carrier Zuikaku as it appeared at Truk Island during 1943.
		Turk Island was a major Japanese Naval anchorage in the early days of World War II.
	www.sell.com /2NPBP (604 words)

	DANFS: USS Harry E. Hubbard (DD-748)
		As with all previous Japanese weapons, even the suicide kamikazes were defeated in their attempt to save this Iast "stepping stone" to Japan itself.
		Besides helping guard the fast carrier task force making repeated airstrikes against the enemy, she frequently joined in gun-strike missions to bombard coastal rail and communication centers and performed as sea-going artillery to support the advance of land troops.
		The carrier task group struck back with lightning rapidity to destroy North Vietnamese torpedo boats and their supporting facilities.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/ships/danfs/DD/dd748.html (1335 words)

	USS HARRY E HUBBARD PHOTO ALBUM
		His destroyer helped cover transports landing reinforcements on bitterly contested Guadalcanal 18 September 1942 During the darkest days of the Solomons Campaign Hubbard joined in maintaining the lifeline of supplies to fighting men holding their ground on Guadalcanal.
		When his men had cleared the bridge, he abandoned the sinking Meredith scant moments before she made her final plunge.
		Harry E. Hubbard remained off Okinawa until 24 July 1945, then escorted occupation troops to Jinsen, Korea, and carried the Commander of Destroyer Squadron 64 to Chinkai, Korea, to oversee the demilitarization of the former Japanese naval base there.
	mypeoplepc.com /members/bob543/DD748 (1572 words)

	Tamiya, 1/700 JAPANS ZUIKAKU SHIP
		This is a 1/700 Plastic Japanese Aircraft Carrier Zuikaku from Tamiya.
		FEATURES: Plastic pieces attached to sprues and molded in gray, fl, and red.
		Paints recommended for use with this kit are for adult modelers only.
	www.hobbiesr.com /tam/tam-406/tam31214.htm (82 words)

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