日本海軍航空母艦 蒼龍 昭和16年 (1941)- World War Two
- Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) [1937~1942]
- sister ship, Hiryu (飛龍)
- 1937 - Second Sino-Japanese War
- mid 1940 - Japanese invasion of French Indochina
- 7 Dec 1941 - attack on Pearl Harbor
- 8~23 Dec 1941 - Battle of Wake Island
- ~9 Mar 1942 - Dutch East Indies campaign
- 31 March~10 April 1942 - Indian Ocean raid - on 5 Apr 1942, sank British heavy cruisers HMS Cornwall & HMS Dorsetshire by Soryu's D3A dive bombers.
- Apr~Jun 1942 - refit
- 4~7 Jun 1942 - Battle of Midway - on 4 Jun 1942, Sōryū was attacked by thirteen SBD Dauntlesses (VB-3) from USS Yorktown. IJN destroyers Isokaze (磯風) and Hamakaze (浜風) rescued the survivors. And Isokaze scuttled Soryu with torpedoes.
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