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39”Lx7.5”Hx 9.75”W
 , meaning “auspicious phoenix.” She was a
light aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy
during World War II. Shoho was the first Japanese
aircraft carrier to be sunk in the Pacific War.
Shoho and her sister ship Zuiho were laid down
in 1934 with a flexible design that could be
completed as an oil tanker, submarine tender, or
aircraft carrier as needed. Shoho was launched
in 1935 as the submarine tender Tsurugisaki. She began to be converted to a light aircraft carrier in
1940 and was renamed Shoho on 26 January 1942.
In the battle of the Coral Sea on 6 May 1942 fiftythree
SBD Dauntless scout-bombers, twenty-two
torpedo planes and eighteen fighters from USS
Lexington and USS Yorktown attacked her. Hit by
six torpedoes and thirteen bombs, she foundered
quickly, and sank, becoming the first IJN aircraft
carrier lost
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