Fleet carriers Shokaku and Zuikaku offered mobile support. On May 7, 1942, Shokaku’s and Zuikaku’s D3A1 dive bombers sank the U.S. destroyer Sims and so badly damaged the fleet tanker Neosho ...

Shoho and the fleet carrier Shokaku. But the Coral Sea was a relative warm-up for the SBD Dauntless’ most important moment in the war, the Battle of Midway. During the Battle of Midway, the Dauntless ...

Shoho and the fleet carrier Shokaku. But the Coral Sea was a relative warm-up for the SBD Dauntless’ most important moment in the war, the Battle of Midway. Dauntlesses were also credited with ...