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Description
--Like the name ship Shoho, Zuiho was first launched as a refueling ship Takasaki in June 1936.
――However, the plan was changed to a submarine tender from the middle of construction, and it was certain that the completion would be after the deadline of the London Naval Treaty, so the plan was changed again and it was decided to complete it as a small aircraft carrier.
--Thus, Zuiho was completed in December 1940, a year before Shoho, who was once completed as a submarine tender and remodeled into an aircraft carrier.
――Zuiho formed the 3rd Carrier Division with Fengxiang at the beginning of the war in December 1941, but at that time it was a regular aircraft carrier, so it must have been a training ship.
--At the time of the Battle of Midway in June 1942, I belonged to the 2nd Fleet, which is a capture unit, and carried out air alerts with the onboard aircraft, but it was a real battle because it was far from the damaged 1st voyage. I have not participated in.
――The affiliation will change to 1 voyage, 5 voyages, 3rd fleet, 1 voyage, etc. due to the subsequent reorganization, and will participate in the Battle of the South Pacific, which is said to be the enemy of Midway.
――The Battle of the Santa Cruz was the final battle between aircraft carriers in the first half of the Pacific War, which was triggered from the battle over Guadalcanal.
--The Japanese Army is the Third Fleet based on Shokaku, Zuikaku, and Zuiho.
――The leader is Nagumo and Kusaka, who are burning in the revenge of Midway.
--The US fleet, on the other hand, was the 16th and 17th Task Forces of the Enterprise, Hornet backbone.
――In this naval battle, the U.S. Navy, which lost Hornet, was hurt by the fact that the aircraft carrier was only an enterprise in the Pacific Ocean, and the Japanese side won the victory. The Japanese Navy also left anxiety in the future.
――In this battle, Zuiho was quickly destroyed by the enemy's first attack, but the Zero squadron that took off from Zuiho shot down about half of the 19 enterprise-launched attack corps, and the rest It is showing an activity that causes damage.
――After this Battle of the South Pacific, both Japan and the United States will have a period of accumulated strength, and the next battle will be the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
――The U.S. Navy, which has accumulated strength by utilizing all of its industrial strength over the past year and a half, has launched a large task force based on seven Essex-class large aircraft carriers and eight independence-class light aircraft carriers. The Japanese Navy, which was forced into exhaustion battles in various parts of the Pacific Ocean, had three large aircraft carriers and six small aircraft carriers to meet them.
――The place is on the sea east of the Philippines. The previous Coral Sea is a sea area far closer to the mainland of Japan. The time is June 1944. In this naval battle, Zuiho belonged to the 3rd Fleet, 3rd voyage, and had advanced 100 miles ahead of the 1st voyage with the flagship Taiho.
――It was the Japanese Navy that controlled the aircraft. The 3rd Fleet, which discovered the US fleet earlier, was launched on June 19th, with 64 Zero Fighters and Zero Fighters (Bomb Battles) from Zuiho, Chitose, and Chiyoda in the 3rd voyage.
――However, after this, an inexperienced pilot could not do any damage to the enemy ship, and was ridiculed as `Mariana's turkey strike`, resulting in a big defeat.
――The Japanese side lost Taiho and Shokaku by a US submarine, and Hiyō in an air attack, and many ships were also injured.
--And with the loss of many aircraft and crew, the glorious Japanese Navy aircraft carrier aviation unit has virtually disappeared.
――In this case, there is no way you can make use of the aircraft carrier's striking power, and it is inevitable that a special attack will come out. That is why the Battle of Leyte Gulf in June 1944 was an unprecedented operation to use the remaining aircraft carriers as decoys.
――In other words, the strategy was to concentrate enemy air attacks on the fleet based on the aircraft carrier, and to let the battleship Yamato, the battleship based on Musashi, and the heavy cruiser unit rush into the Leyte Gulf.
――The result was all unsuccessful due to the reversal of the mystery of the Kurita fleet, but the carrier group of the MTF under Jisaburo Ozawa sucked up the Halsey fleet brilliantly, and at one point the operation seemed to be successful.
――However, the price is high, and Zuiho, Chitose, and Chiyoda were lost together with many victims, including the veteran warship Zuikaku, but the strenuous battle of Zuiho at this time is a photograph of several leaves left by the American side. I'm telling you now.
――In this way, Zuiho disappeared into the sea off Cape Engaño and died for only four years, but he has lived longer than the name ship Shoho with repeated martial arts.
――In addition, Ruiho received a renovation to extend the flight deck by 15 m around 1944, and was equipped with electric probes and rocket artillery at this time, and is fighting the Battle of the Philippine Sea and the Battle of Leyte Gulf in this figure. ..
