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This article refers to the entire Shokaku-class; it is not about an individual vessel.

Approved to be built in the Third Supplementary Program of 1937, the Shokaku-class aircraft carriers were completed in mid-1941, making them the most modern purpose-built fleet carriers of the Japanese Navy at the start of the Pacific War. They were based on the design of the Soryu-class, with the major difference being larger (to carry more aircraft) and heavier (result of thicker armor). As the two central members of the 5th Carrier Division, they participated in most of the major battles and campaigns in the Pacific War, and were both sunk during the war.

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