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On 11 February, she replaced her sister ship Yamato as the fleet's flagship. On 3 April, Yamamoto left Musashi and flew to Rabaul, New Britain to personally direct "Operation I-Go", a Japanese aerial offensive in the Solomon Islands.
On 11 February 1943, Yamato was replaced by her sister ship Musashi as flagship of the Combined Fleet. [13] Yamato spent only a single day away from Truk between her arrival in August 1942 and her departure on 8 May 1943. [13] [23] On that day, she set sail for Yokosuka and from there for Kure, arriving on 14 May.
On 11 February 1943, Musashi relieved her sister ship Yamato as the flagship of the Combined Fleet. Until July 1944, Musashi shifted between the naval bases of Truk, Yokosuka, Brunei, and Kure. On 29 March 1944, she sustained moderate damage near the bow from one torpedo fired by the American submarine Tunny.
Yamato (Japanese: 大和, named after Yamato Province) was the lead ship of the Yamato-class battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. She and her sister ship , Musashi , were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed.
Shinano (ex-battleship converted in 1942–44) — †1944 (1) Does not include Imperial Japanese Army built aircraft transports. (2) Amagi — sister ship to Akagi both as a battlecruiser and as a conversion to an aircraft carrier, was destroyed during construction by an earthquake and replaced with the Kaga .
She was laid down on 4 May 1940 at the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal to a modified Yamato-class design: her armor would be 10–20 millimeters (0.4–0.8 in) thinner than that of the earlier ships, as it had proved to be thicker than it needed to be for the desired level of protection, and her heavy anti-aircraft (AA) guns would be the new 65-caliber ...
Shōkaku being launched in heavy rain at Yokosuka, 1 June 1939.. The Shōkaku-class carriers were part of the same program that also included the Yamato-class battleships.No longer restricted by the provisions of the Washington Naval Treaty, which expired in December 1936, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was free to incorporate all those features they deemed most desirable in an aircraft ...
The ships identified as being at Kure included the battleships Yamato and Haruna as well as three light aircraft carriers. [10] The ships located on 18 March were selected as Task Force 58's main objective for the next day's attacks. Task Groups 58.1, 58.3 and 58.4 were to attack Kure, and Task Group 58.2 was to strike Kobe.