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Zuikaku and the aircraft carrier Kaga preparing to attack Pearl Harbor, December 7th 1941 Zuikaku during Indian Ocean raid. Zuikaku would play a key role in the Indian Ocean Raid throughout April, where the Kidō Butai (excluding Kaga which scraped her hull on a reef) attacked various British warships and positions in a multiple-day raid.
Attack on Pearl Harbor; Part of the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of World War II: Photograph of Battleship Row taken from a Japanese plane at the beginning of the attack. The explosion in the center is a torpedo strike on USS West Virginia. Two attacking Japanese planes can be seen: one over USS Neosho and one over the Naval Yard.
The ship bears the same name as the World War II-era Kaga, the Tosa-class battleship turned aircraft carrier that was produced in 1928 and participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor. She is also slightly longer than her World War II predecessor. Kaga and Izumo are the first aircraft carriers built by Japan since the end of World War II.
The title was used as a term of convenience; it was not a formal name for the organization. It consisted of Japan's six largest carriers, carrying the 1st Air Fleet. This mobile task force was created for the attack on Pearl Harbor under Vice-Admiral Chūichi Nagumo in 1941. [24]
D3A "Val" dive bombers preparing to take off from an aircraft carrier for the attack on Pearl Harbor; Sōryū is in the background. In November 1941 the IJN's Combined Fleet, under Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto , prepared to participate in Japan's initiation of war with the United States by conducting a preemptive strike against the US Navy's ...
On the Kidō Butai's return journey from Pearl Harbor, IJN carriers Soryu and Hiryu and their supporting screen split off from the main group and went to Wake Island to support Japan's invasion there. [74] From there, they went to Ambon Island in the Dutch East Indies and bombed it as part of a Japanese operation to isolate resource-rich Java. [75]
Two survivors of the bombing — each 100 or older — are planning to return to Pearl Harbor on Saturday to observe the 83rd anniversary of the attack that thrust the US into World War II.
In the first wave, 8 B5N torpedo bombers 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; 4 of the B5N pilots diverted to their secondary target, ships berthed alongside "1010 Pier" where the fleet flagship was usually moored.