Well, you left out the cruisers, but really I was trying to agree with you by quoting another source that I felt more or less concurs with you. Perhaps I worded it wrong.
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Brockman's performance on June 4, in terms of courage and persistence, was outstanding, and he received a Navy Cross. Credited with sinking Soryu, Brockman was later to be denied. In a careful postwar analysis, the U.S. Navy determined, after comparing position reports of Nautilus and the Japanese forces, that the carrier Brockman shot at was not Soryu but Kaga.
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- p. 244 in the paperback edition if you're interested (or look up
Kaga in the index).