 On 20 June, a bomb hit started a fire in the hangar, but "Zuikaku"s experienced damage control teams managed to get it under control, and she was able to escape under her own power.After this battle, "Zuikaku" was the only survivor of the six fleet carriers that had launched the attack on Pearl Harbor.In October 1944, she was the flagship of Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa's decoy Northern Force in Operation Shō-Gō 1, the Japanese counterattack to the Allied landings on Leyte.