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During World War II, at the beginning of the Pacific War in December 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was the third most powerful navy in the world, [3] and Japan's naval air service was one of the most potent air forces in the world.
This list of Japanese Naval ships and war vessels in World War II is a list of seafaring vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II. It includes submarines , battleships , oilers , minelayers and other types of Japanese sea vessels of war and naval ships used during wartime.
No.1-class auxiliary submarine chaser (驅潛特務艇第一號型): Over 200 built during World War II, 81 lost. List of IJN Patrol Vessels can be found here at . No.1-class patrol boat. Patrol Boat No. 1 (ex-Shimakaze) Patrol Boat No. 2 (ex-Nadakaze) No.31-class patrol boat. Patrol Boat No. 31 (ex-Kiku) Patrol Boat No. 32 (ex-Aoi)
The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kaigun ⓘ 'Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire', or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun, 'Japanese Navy') was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's surrender in World War II.
Battleships: Axis and Neutral Battleships in World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-101-0. OCLC 12613723. Jackson, Robert (2000). The World's Great Battleships. Brown Books. ISBN 978-1-897884-60-7. Jentschura, Hansgeorg; Jung, Dieter; Mickel, Peter (1977). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945 ...
The IJN Air Service had the mission of national air defence, deep strike, naval warfare, and so forth. It retained this mission to the end. The Japanese pilot training program was very selective and rigorous, producing a high-quality and long-serving pilot corps, who were very successful in the air during the early part of World War II in the ...
18 (plus 1 building) (1) 2 Furutaka built 1926-1927; 2 Aoba built 1926-1927; 4 Myōkō built 1928-1929; 4 Takao built 1932; 4 Mogami built 1935-1937(2); 2 Tone built 1941 (1) Ibuki ordered but not laid down (2) Mogamis designated light cruisers but were built to be up-gunned as heavies once the London Naval Treaty was broken.
Third Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy) - Fleet assigned to patrol Russian coast during the Soviet Revolution; 2nd Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy) was a fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) created as a mobile strike force in response to hostilities with Russia, and saw action in every IJN military operation until the end of World War II.