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SHOHO

Shoho was a light aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Originally built as the submarine support ship Tsurugizaki in the late 1930s, she was converted before the Pacific War into an aircraft carrier and renamed. Completed in early 1942, the ship supported the invasion forces in Operation MO, the invasion of Port Moresby, New Guinea, and was sunk by American carrier aircraft on her first combat operation during the Battle of the Coral Sea on 7 May. Shoho was the first Japanese aircraft carrier to be sunk during World War II.

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Shipowner	Imperial Japanese Navy
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Type of ship	Light aircraft carrier
Year of build and builder	1935 Yokosuka Naval Arsenal , Japan
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Added on	09/06/2013
Dimension	3062 x 1871
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