Shokaku

History of Services:

1937
Laid down.

August 1941
Commissioned as Special Duty Ship.

Flagship of First Air Fleet.

September 1941
Assigned as flagship of CarDiv 5.

October 1941
Join sister-ship ZUIKAKU.

November 1941
Flagship shifted to ZUIKAKU.

7 December 1941
Operation "KidoButai" - attack on Pearl Harbor.

January 1942
Striked against Rabaul and Lae.

Arrived at Yokosuka to pick-up aircrafts.

March 1942
Together with ZUIKAKU, ISE and HYUGA searched for suspious enemy around homeland area.

April 1942
Operation "C" - raid in the Indian Ocean. Striked against Colombo and Trincomalee, Ceylon.

8 May 1942
Operation "MO" - Battle of Coral Sea. Damaged by three bomb hits. Aovided all topedoes. Leave battlezone with full-speed after being damaged.

8 May 1942 ~ June 1942
Successfully avoided all enemy submarines. Return to Kure for repair.

July 1942
Assigned to 3rd Fleet CarDiv 1.

August 1942
Participate in the Battle of the Eastern Soloman. Lightly damaged.

26 October 1942
Battle of Santa Cruz. About 4 to 5 bomb hits but fire was able to be extinguished. Departed the battlezone with damaged ZUIHO to Truk.

Emergence repair at Truk.

November 1942
Repair at Yokosuka.

July 1943
United with ZUIKAKU.

October ~ November 1943
Operation "RO" - reinforcement of Rabaul, with ZUIHO and ZUIKAKU.

March 1944
Assigned as flagship of 3rd Fleet, Admiral Ozawa Jisaburo.

April 1944
Flagship transferred to TAIHO.

18 June 1944
Battle of Marianas. Hit by 3 topedoes by U.S.S. Cavalla (submarine). An uncontrollable fire broke out, eventually she blown apart.

August 1945
Scrapped from the Navy List.