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Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū
Hiryū (Japanese: 飛龍, meaning "flying dragon") was a Sōryū-class aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor that started the Pacific War and she was destroyed on June 5, 1942 by air attack in the Battle of Midway.
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