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Japanese planners of the Pearl Harbor attack had determined that some means were required for rescuing fliers whose aircraft were damaged too badly to return to the carriers. The island of Niihau , only thirty minutes by air from Pearl Harbor, was designated as the rescue point.
Before her loss, Zuikaku was the last surviving Japanese carrier to have attacked Pearl Harbor. She was also the only Japanese fleet carrier (as opposed to a light carrier) to have been sunk by aircraft-launched torpedoes, as all others were sunk by bombs delivered by dive bombers or submarine-launched torpedoes. [2]
Carrier Kaga Aichi D3A "Val" dive bomber Japanese planes warming up for attack on Pearl Harbor Kaga (Captain Jisaku Okada [e]) Air Officer (Commander Naohito Sato) VF Leader (Lieutenant Yoshio Shiga) 2nd FCU Wave 1: 9 × A6M2 "Zero" (Lieutenant Shiga) (two aircraft lost) 2nd FCU Wave 2: 9 × A6M (Lieutenant Yasushi Nikaido) (two aircraft lost)
First Air Fleet commander Vice Admiral Chūichi Nagumo, for whom Akagi served as flagship from Pearl Harbor to Midway Crewmembers gather on the flight deck of Akagi at Hitokappu Bay, Kuriles in November 1941 prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. The other carriers in the background are, from left to right: Kaga, Shōkaku, Zuikaku, Hiryū, and ...
The Battle of Midway took place six months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The Japanese navy aimed to take control of the U.S. patrol plane base in a surprise attack at ...
(1) Does not include Imperial Japanese Army built aircraft transports. (2) Amagi — sister ship to Akagi both as a battlecruiser and as a conversion to an aircraft carrier, was destroyed during construction by an earthquake and replaced with the Kaga.
In the first wave, eight of Sōryū ' s B5Ns were supposed to attack the aircraft carriers that normally berthed on the northwest side of Ford Island, but none were in Pearl Harbor that day; six B5Ns attacked the ships that were present, torpedoing the target ship Utah, causing her to capsize, and the elderly light cruiser Raleigh, damaging her.
Planes taking off 1st Air Fleet Aichi dive bombers preparing to bomb American naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Carrier Shokaku preparing to launch the attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese aircraft carrier Shōhō being hit by bombs and torpedoes at the Battle of the Coral Sea. Japanese aircraft at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.