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The carrier, captained by Kaoru Umetani, was tasked along with Zuihō to provide air support, including scouting, anti-submarine patrols, and combat air patrol for the Combined Fleet's "Main Body" battle-line of six battleships: Nagato, Mutsu, Fusō, Yamashiro, Ise, and Hyūga. [35]
Shōhō (Japanese: 祥鳳, "Auspicious Phoenix" or "Happy Phoenix") was a light aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy.Originally built as the submarine support ship Tsurugizaki (Japanese: 剣埼, "Sword Cape") in the late 1930s, she was converted before the Pacific War into an aircraft carrier and renamed.
The first wave of search aircraft spotted one group of four carriers from Task Force 58 at 0734 and the Japanese carriers launched their aircraft an hour later. This consisted of 43 Zero fighter-bombers and 7 B6Ns, escorted by 14 A6M5 fighters; the carriers retained only three fighters, two fighter-bombers, two B6Ns and two B5Ns for self ...
Super battleship Yamato fitting out several weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor Battleship Nagato Light carrier Hosho. Admiral Yamamoto in Yamato. 1st Battleship Division 1 Yamato-class battleship (9 × 18-in. main battery) Yamato (Rear Adm. Gihachi Takayanagi) 2 Nagato-class battleships (8 × 16-in. main battery) Mutsu (Rear Adm. Gunji Kogure)
Prototype testing commenced in 1923 and the weapon was approved for service in 1924, for use on Japan's first aircraft carrier, the Hosho. The first ever domestically-designed Japanese carrier-borne torpedo bomber, the 1MT1N , was also slated to carry a variant of the Type 44 torpedo, but in practice was unable to take off from the carrier deck ...
Howarth and Jentschura were partially right as Hosho was ordered as one of 6 "Special Service" ships in the 8-6 program. The other five became tankers, but Hosho was not renamed from Hiryu, nor was it laid down as a tanker and converted on the stocks.--Sturmvogel 66 14:00, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
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Twenty-one aircraft carriers, all of the attack carriers operational during the era except John F. Kennedy, deployed to Task Force 77 of the US Seventh Fleet, conducting 86 war cruises and operating 9,178 total days on the line in the Gulf of Tonkin. 530 aircraft were lost in combat and 329 more in operational accidents, causing the deaths of ...