Fujimi 60009 1/350 IJN Aircraft Carrier Shokaku 翔鶴 (1941) [DX] Print this pagePrint this page
Fujimi 60009 1/350 IJN Aircraft Carrier Shokaku 翔鶴 (1941) [DX]
Price: HK$1,875.00

Highlights:
- photo-etched parts
- metal gun barrels
free delivery


Availability: [In Stock]
Weight: 1.666 kg
Description
  • World War Two
  • Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN)
  • Shōkaku-class aircraft carrier (another one is Zuikaku 瑞鶴)
  • Commissioned: 8 August 1941
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor (7 December 1941)
  • Indian Ocean raid (March~April 1942) - sank two Royal Navy heavy cruisers (HMS Cornwall & Dorsetshire), & aircraft carrier HMS Hermes, on 9 April 1942)
  • Battle of the Coral Sea (4~8 May 1942) -  sank the American aircraft carrier USS Lexington,  but was seriously damaged by dive bombers from USS Yorktown and Lexington  on 8 May 1942.
  • Battle of the Eastern Solomons (24~25 August 1942) - damaged USS Enterprise (with her sister-ship Zuikaku & light carrier Zuihō)
  • Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands (25~27 October 1942) - sank USS Hornet (with her sister-ship Zuikaku & light carrier Zuihō; Japanese destroyers Makigumo & Akigumo)
  • Battle of the Philippine Sea (19 June 1944) - was torpedoed and sunk by a U.S. submarine USS Cavalla.

Images

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Shōkaku (翔鶴) [23 August 1941]
 
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Zero Fighter on Shōkaku (翔鶴) [Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941]
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Bomber Nakajima B5N2 Kate taking off from Shōkaku (翔鶴) [Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941]