Shoho (Aircraft carrier)

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Shoho (Aircraft Carrier, 1942-1942)
Shoho, a 13,950-ton light aircraft carrier, entered service in January 1942. Originally the fast submarine support ship Tsurugisaki, which had been completed at Yokosuka Dockyard in 1939, the ship was renamed and her conversion to an aircraft carrier begun in 1941. On 7 May 1942, during the Battle of the Coral Sea, Shoho was sunk by an overwhelming dive bombing and torpedo attack delivered by aircraft from USS Lexington (CV-2) and USS Yorktown (CV-5).
Japanese aircraft carrier Shoho is hit, during attacks by U.S. Navy carrier aircraft in the late morning of 7 May 1942.
Photographed from a USS Lexington (CV-2) plane.

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