The story of IJN Soryu

 

“She sank with the loss of 711 officers and enlisted men of the 1,103 aboard. The loss of IJN Sōryū and three other Japanese carriers at Midway was a crucial strategic defeat for Japan and contributed significantly to the Allies' ultimate victory in the Pacific”

 

Ok so this is the first story that I have written about an aircraft carrier, and well this is a little bit challenging to write so…

Yeah let’s get on to the story, as always I’m going to be showing you the description about IJN Sōryū.

 

                                    IJN Sōryū

Armament: 6 × twin 12.7 cm (5 in) dual-purpose guns

Aircraft carried: 63 (+9 reserve)

                                 21 Mitsubishi A6M Zero

                                       18 Aichi D3A

                                       18 Nakajima B5N

Speed: 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)

Displacement: 19,100 tons

 

So, this ship the IJN Soryu it got sunk by the Japanese you see they had choice they had to scuttle the ship (scuttle means that they intentionally sink their own ship), but before that the ship was hit by three bombs and oh boy I do not want to be on that ship while that happens.

So, the ship IJN Soryu was a good ship before it you know sunk, and actually Sōryū was one of two large carriers approved for construction under the Imperial Japanese
Navy's 1931–32 Supplementary Program (the other being her near- sister Hiryū).

Ok, being honest here I had never heard about IJN Soryu and Hiryu at the time I only knew about IJN Kaga, IJN Akagi, IJN Junyo and the great IJN Shinano, those were the only Japanese carriers that I have known (I didn’t know that there were 2 more).

This end’s the story of IJN Soryu for now.

 

Italic/bold contents are credited to Wikipedia