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Japanese aircraft carrier Shoho 2d technical drawing or blueprint in 1942 0B

 Japanese aircraft carrier Shoho 2d technical drawing or blueprint in 1942-0B

航空母艦 『祥鳳』

  Japanese aircraft carrier Shōhō 祥鳳 - 'Auspicious Phoenix' or 'Happy Phoenix'

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, the ship 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 7th May 1942. Shōhō was the first Japanese aircraft carrier to be sunk during World War II.

 

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