The Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku, photograph taken by an unknown photographer in September 1941.
The ship was badly damaged in the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942 during the Second World War (1939-45), but it was repaired and saw service until it was sunk in 1944.
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