Irresponsible and Right: US and Japanese fleet carrier losses in the Pacific

Roger Bell_West
1 September 2013


Table of Contents

Last campaign update: 30 September 1942


USA

Langley

Damaged by dive bombers south of Tjilatjap; scuttled 27 February 1942.

Lexington class

Lexington

Damaged by bombers at Coral Sea; scuttled 8 May 1942.

Saratoga

Sunk by new torpedo near Guadalcanal, 28 September 1942. (Historically: survived the war.)

Ranger

On duty in Atlantic.

Yorktown class

Yorktown

Damaged by foo fighters at Coral Sea; scuttled 8 May 1942. (Historically: sunk at Midway.)

Enterprise

Damaged by foo fighters and sunk at Midway, 5 June 1942. (Historically: survived the war.)

Hornet

Damaged by foo fighters and sunk at Midway, 5 June 1942. (Historically: lost at Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, 27 October 1942.)

Wasp

Sunk by submarine, 15 September 1942.


Japan

Akagi

Still in service. (Historically: damaged by US air attack at the Battle of Midway and scuttled by Japanese destroyers on 5 June 1942.)

Kaga

Still in service. (Historically: scuttled after being heavily damaged by a US air attack at the Battle of Midway, 4 June 1942.)

Soryu

Sunk by air attack at the Battle of Midway, 4 June 1942.

Hiryu

Still in service. (Historically: scuttled after the Battle of Midway, 5 June 1942.)

Shokaku class

Shokaku

Still in service. (Historically: sunk by American submarine USS Cavalla on 19 June 1944.)

Zuikaku

Sunk by air attack in the Battle of the Coral Sea, 8 May 1942. (Historically: sunk by air attack in the Battle of Leyte Gulf on 25 October 1944.)

Hiyo class

Hiyo

Still in service. (Historically: sunk 21 June 1944 during the Battle of the Philippine Sea.)

Junyo

Still in service. (Historically: survived the war.)