Fujimi 60004 1/350 IJN Aircraft Carrier Zuikaku (瑞鶴) "Battle of Leyte Gulf 1944"

World War Two
Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN)
Shōkaku-class aircraft carrier (another one is Shōkaku 翔鶴)
Commissioned: 25 September 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,.
Battle of the Eastern Solomons (24~25 August 1942) - damaged USS Enterprise (with her sister-ship Shōkaku & light carrier Zuihō)
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands (25~27 October 1942) - sank USS Hornet (with her sister-ship Shōkaku & light carrier Zuihō; Japanese destroyers Makigumo & Akigumo)
Battle of the Philippine Sea (19 June 1944) - Taihō & Shōkaku were sunk by a U.S. submarines. After this battle, Zuikaku was the only survivor of the six fleet carriers that had launched the attack on Pearl Harbour. (four were sunk in the Battle of Midway)
Battle of Leyte Gulf - Battle of Cape Engaño (24~25 October 1944) - as flag ship, with light carriers Zuihō, Chitose, & Chiyoda, light cruiser Ōyodo. Zuikaku was hit by seven torpedoes and nine bombs, and sunk at 14:14, 25 October 1944.