IJN Soryu (Green Dragon) was completed on 29 December 1937. On the morning of 4 June, Yorktown SBDs hit Soryu with three bombs. Capt. Ryusaku Yanagimoto ordered “abandon ship” 30-minutes later. Yanagimoto elected to go down with his ship, wh
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