Anonymous commented at 2011-07-13 09:39:17 » #809592

Wow! the time it must've taken to make this thing, the elegance, the power, the blood, sweat, tears! To bad it must be destroyed!

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jedi1357 commented at 2011-07-13 13:01:38 » #809755

18 month to build (25 May 1938 to 27 November 1939)
10 months to outfit, supply and commission. (25 September 1941)
Attacked Pearl Harbor. (7 December 1941, Kaneohe, Hickam Field, sank USS California and damaged USS Maryland)
Took part in the Indian Ocean raid. (20 January 1942, sinking HMS Hermes, HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire)
Operation Mo, the invasion of Port Moresby, New Guinea, Battle of the Coral Sea. (8 May 1942, sank the Lexington)
Battle of the Eastern Solomons (24 August 1942, her planes severely damaged the carrier USS Enterprise.)
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands (26 October 1942, crippled the USS Hornet.)
Battle of the Philippine Sea (19 June 1944, leaving Zuikaku heavily damaged.)
Flagship against US Third Fleet. (24 October 1944, sinking USS Princeton.)
Battle of Cape Engaño (25 October 1944, hit by seven torpedoes and nine bombs. 842 crewmen lost, 862 rescued)

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Wolfman-053 commented at 2012-03-23 15:58:49 » #1031146

You left out that USS Lexington (CV-16) had a role in her sinking, jedi1357.

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Anonymous commented at 2013-04-03 16:41:01 » #1295705

A historian browsing gelbooru? Well then.. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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