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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]
"Commissioned in 1922, the ship was used for testing carrier aircraft operations equipment, techniques, such as take-offs and landings, and carrier aircraft operational methods and tactics." The phrasing here is a bit redundant as it includes "carrier aircraft operation[s/al]" twice.
Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō, an aircraft carrier launched in 1921 and scrapped in 1946 List of ships with the same or similar names This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names.
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.
Completed in early 1942, Shōhō supported the invasion forces in Operation MO, the invasion of Port Moresby, New Guinea, and was sunk by American carrier aircraft on her first combat operation during the Battle of the Coral Sea on 7 May. Shōhō was the first Japanese aircraft carrier to be sunk during World War II.
Hōshō was built in 1868 in Aberdeen, Scotland as a wooden-hulled three-masted bark-rigged sloop-of-war with a coal-fired triple expansion reciprocating steam engine with two boilers driving a single screw.
The next day, the light carrier Ryūjō joined the sister ships in the First Carrier Division, which departed for Truk on 16 August. [40] Having learned the lesson taught at Midway, the IJN strengthened the fighter contingent at the expense of the torpedo bombers assigned to its carriers; the Shōkaku -class carriers mustered 53 Zeros, 51 D3As ...
Hosho can refer to several things: Japanese warship Hōshō, launched in 1868; Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō, launched in 1921; Medals of Honor (Hōshō), several medals awarded by the Government of Japan; Hōshō (Noh school), school of Noh theatre; Hosho (instrument), a Zimbabwean musical instrument