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Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku : ウィキペディア英語版 | Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku
''Zuikaku'' (Japanese: 瑞鶴 "Auspicious Crane") was a of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her complement of aircraft 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, before being sunk during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.〔(Zuikaku @ ) www.history.navy.mil〕 One of six carriers to participate in the Pearl Harbor attack, ''Zuikaku'' was the last of the six to be sunk in the war (four in the Battle of Midway and ''Shōkaku'' in the Battle of the Philippine Sea). ==Service history==
In 1941, ''Zuikaku'', under the command of Captain Yokokawa Ichibei, and her sister ship comprised Carrier Division 5. On 26 November 1941, she left Hitokappu Bay for the attack on Pearl Harbor as part of the ''Kido Butai'' ("Mobile Force"). Her aircraft complement consisted of 15 Mitsubishi A6M fighters, 27 Aichi D3A dive bombers, and 27 Nakajima B5N torpedo bombers. On 7 December, she launched two waves of aircraft against American military installations on the island of Oahu. In the first wave, 25 dive bombers attacked Wheeler Army Airfield and five fighters attacked the airbase at Kaneohe. In the second wave, 27 torpedo bombers, armed with bombs, attacked the airbase at Hickam Field and 17 dive bombers targeted the battleships and on Battleship Row at Pearl Harbor. ''California'' later sank, while ''Maryland'' escaped Pearl Harbor with moderate damage. ''Zuikaku''s aircraft also attacked the Australian bases at Rabaul on 20 January 1942 and Lae in New Guinea on 21 January. In April 1942, she took part in the Indian Ocean raid, striking the British naval bases at Colombo and Trincomalee on Ceylon, and sinking the Royal Navy aircraft carrier and the heavy cruisers and , also with the help of ''Shōkaku''.
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