Fujimi 43191 1/700 IJN Aircraft Carrier Soryu 蒼龍 1938/1941

日本海軍航空母艦蒼龍昭和16年/13年 (1941/1938)

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.