Zuikaku
The aircraft carrier Zuikaku (空母 瑞鶴) was one of the Imperial Japanese Navy warships from whose flight decks the attack on Pearl Harbor was launched. Her aircraft, along with those of her sister ship Shokaku, also participated in several other naval battles of World War II. Among these were the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, the Battle of Santa Cruz Island, and the Battle of the Philippine Sea, during which Shokaku was lost.
Zuikaku herself was destroyed on October 24, 1944 by planes of the US Navy during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. She was the last survivor of the carriers that had attacked Pearl Harbor.
web link: http://www.b-b.ne.jp/kaigun/zuikaku.html
See also : World War II, List of ships of the Japanese Navy
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