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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)
31 January 1905 => 4 November 1905, Converted merchant cruisers fleet in the Russo-Japanese War. Training Fleet (練習艦隊, Renshū Kantai) 20 December 1905 => 20 September 1940, organized and dissolved every year. Serving Fleet (接伴艦隊, Seppan Kantai) 6 October 1908 => 25 October 1908, organized for serving the Great White Fleet.
An Imperial Japanese Navy I-400-class submarine, the largest submarine type of World War II. Japan had by far the most varied fleet of submarines of World War II, including manned torpedoes , midget submarines (Ko-hyoteki, Kairyu), medium-range submarines, purpose-built supply submarines (many for use by the Army), long-range fleet submarines ...
Combined Fleet, the main combatant component of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. 1st Fleet (HQ Hashira-jima, Yamaguchi) 2nd Fleet; 3rd Fleet (HQ Babeldaob, Palau) 4th Fleet (HQ Truk, Micronesia) 5th Fleet; 6th Fleet (HQ Kwajalein, Marshall Islands) Southern Expeditionary Fleet; 10th Area Fleet; Central Pacific Area Fleet
World War II submarines of Japan (1 C, 263 P) Pages in category "World War II naval ships of Japan" The following 79 pages are in this category, out of 79 total.
Between the 1890s and 1940s, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) built a series of battleships as it expanded its fleet. Previously, the Empire of Japan had acquired a few ironclad warships from foreign builders, although it had adopted the Jeune École naval doctrine which emphasized cheap torpedo boats and commerce raiding to offset expensive, heavily armored ships.
The Type 2 Ke-To light tank (二式軽戦車 ケト, Nishiki keisensha Ke-To) was developed by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II as an improvement on the existing Type 98 Ke-Ni. Development work on the Type 2 proceeded with an improved Type 1 37 mm gun in an enlarged turret. [ 87 ]