Word: zuikaku
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...time they got back, it was too late. Helldivers had scored up to a dozen hits on the Zuikaku; Avengers had slammed in three torpedoes. Commander Theodore Hugh Winters, air group commander, cruised around upstairs, watching the Zuikaku's death throes...
...Hayataka-class* carrier sunk; two tankers sunk; a destroyer sunk; another Hayataka-class carrier "severely damaged and left burning furiously"; a Zuikaku-class carrier hit by three 1,000-lb. bombs; a light Zuiho-class carrier hit by two aerial torpedoes; another light carrier perforated by seven 500-pounders; a Kongo-class battleship, three cruisers, two destroyers and three tankers damaged. Of the few Jap planes remaining to defend their ships 26 had been shot down...
Admiral Halsey's flyers damaged two Jap aircraft carriers of the 17,000-ton Zuikaku class-one of them with four to six heavy bomb hits. They hit a battleship of the 29,330-ton Kongo class with two heavy bombs, another battleship with one; scored torpedo and bomb hits on three heavy cruisers. The Jap plane loss was heavier than in the Coral Sea battle, about half as heavy as Midway: "over 100" destroyed, 50 more probably shot down...
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