Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku sinking

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Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku

Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku

Zuikaku (Japanese: 瑞鶴 "Auspicious Crane") was a Shōkaku-class aircraft carrier 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, finally being sunk during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku

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