Shoho Japanese Aircraft Carrier
Originally built as the submarine support ship Tsurugizaki in the late 1930s, Shoho was converted before the Pacific War into an aircraft carrier. Completed in early 1942, the ship supported the invasion forces in Operation MO, the invasion of Port Moresby, New Guinea, and was sunk by American carrier aircraft on her first combat operation during the Battle of the Coral Sea on 7 May. Shōhō was the first Japanese aircraft carrier to be sunk during World War II.
Tsurugisaki submarine support ship 
Shoho undergoing conversion to an aircraft carrier 
Shoho 
Shoho 
Douglas TBD Devastator drops torpedo at Japanese carrier Shoho 1942 
Shoho is torpedoed, during attacks by U.S. Navy carrier aircraft in the late morning of 7 May 1942 
Shoho attacked by torpedo planes 1942 
Shoho sinking during Battle of Coral Sea 1942 
Shoho sinking during Battle of Coral Sea 1942 
Shoho sinking during Battle of Coral Sea 1942
