Rebeldude86's avatar
My mistake it seems it was the Taiho i was thinking of.
This is what i found:
"On 19 June 1944, Taihō was one of nine Japanese aircraft carriers involved in the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
At 07:45 that morning, she was turned into the wind to launch her
contribution (16 Zeros, 17 "Judy"s and nine "Jill"s) to Ozawa's second
attack wave. As Taihō‍ '​s planes circled overhead to form up, American submarine USS Albacore,
which had spotted Ozawa's carriers earlier that morning, reached an
ideal attack position and fired a spread of six torpedoes at the
carrier. One of Taihō‍ '​s strike pilots, Warrant Officer Sakio
Komatsu, saw the torpedo wakes, broke formation and deliberately dove
his plane into the path of one torpedo; the weapon detonated short of
its target
and four of the remaining five missed. The sixth torpedo, however,
found its mark and the resulting explosion holed the carrier's hull on
the starboard side, just ahead of the island. The impact also fractured
the aviation fuel tanks and jammed the forward elevator between the
flight deck and upper hangar deck."
zulumike's avatar
Thanks for the update