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	Imperial Japanese Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The origins of the Imperial Japanese Navy trace back to early interactions with nations on the Asian continent, beginning in the early medieval period and reaching a peak of activity during the 16th and 17th centuries at a time of cultural exchange with European powers during the Age of Discovery.
		The French-built Matsushima, flagship of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Yalu River (1894).
		Japanese armoured cruiser Nisshin in the Mediterranean (Malta, 1919).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Navy (5905 words)

	American Experience \| Victory in the Pacific \| People & Events \| PBS
		As the battle came to an end, large numbers of civilians committed suicide, terrified of being captured by American forces.
		Japanese government officials exploited the suicides at Saipan to their advantage, calling those who took their lives heroes and encouraging the entire Japanese population to follow suit if the time came.
		It was during this battle that U.S. sailors first witnessed the kamikaze attacks that would become commonplace five months later in the battle of Okinawa.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/pacific/peopleevents/e_battles.html (1034 words)

	The Battle of Leyte Gulf
		The pride of the Japanese Navy from the First World War, as well as several old battleships raised from the mud of Pearl Harbor, and at the perfect place and time to exact a measure of revenge for that day nearly three years earlier.
		Against this formidable force, the Japanese committed to action virtually all that was left of the operational forces, afloat and in the air, of Japan’s once proud navy.
		The Battle of Leyte Gulf consisted of two preliminary strikes against the Japanese forces on the way to battle, and three massive engagements once the fleets tangled.
	www.battleship.org /html/Articles/History/Leyte0.htm (1569 words)

	wip_hone_pacwar_aug03
		The Japanese campaign plan to isolate and conquer a major forward base (Port Moresby in New Guinea) of the United States and its Australian ally was just the sort of move that prewar war gamers had studied again and again.
		The Navy and Marines precipitated the main fleet battle by attacking in the Central Pacific—first at Tarawa, then in the Marshall Islands, and finally, in June 1944, by assaulting Saipan, in the Marianas.
		The Imperial Navy, provoked, fought a main fleet engagement at the Battle of the Philippine Sea (19-20 June 1944).
	www.ijnhonline.org /volume2_number2_Aug03/wip_hone_pacwar_aug03.htm (2924 words)

	welcome aboard
		One such illustration is the several generations of battleships built for the the navies during the world war II.
		Before the war, the Imperial Japanese Navy hold the advantage of tons and number of carriers as well as battleships against the US Navy.
		The Japanese committed unspeakable acts of aggression and oppression during World War II, and received the defeat they very richly deserved at the hands of the Allies.
	www.cs.purdue.edu /homes/tuyc/Hobby/Battleship/BattleShip.html (572 words)

	The Silent War against the Japanese Navy
		Monitoring Japanese naval communications, they were able to deduce from patterns alone that the entire fleet had sortied from Japan and was engaged in an exercise of massive proportions.
		The Japanese navy had even managed to call up all its reserve ships and personnel and send them to sea with the rest of the fleet, all with such secrecy that the U.S. naval attaché in Tokyo was unaware of anything unusual.
		Although the ability to read Japanese naval messages was expanding rapidly just before the battle of Midway, that less than fifty of the 280 ships later acknowledged to have been present were ever mentioned in JN-25 decrypts points to a subtle limitation as to what intelligence can be derived through cryptanalysts.
	www.ibiblio.org /pha/ultra/nwc-01.html (4004 words)

	The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbour; 7 Dec 1941
		The Japanese believed that they were being pushed into a corner by Roosevelt and felt that they must act to protect the Empire.
		The Japanese plan was to conduct one large naval battle against the American Navy, destroying it, resulting in the inability of the U.S. to interfere with Japanese expansion through out Asia.
		Of the Japanese air-craft carriers that took part in the attack, 4 were sunk at Midway, another 2 were sunk in 1944 and the Japanese battleships were sunk at Guadalcanal.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-battles/ww2/pearl-harbour.htm (2760 words)

	Coral Sea; naval battle that 'saved' Australia
		In the battle, the Japanese lost the light carrier Shoho and the U.S. lost the carrier, USS Lexington (CV 2).
		It seemed as though the Japanese would overrun the whole of the South Pacific including Australia, India and the Aleutians, although Prime Minister Togo, hours before his execution at wars end, as a War Criminal, swore that the occupation of Australia was never a serious option.
		We are grateful for American intervention in the Battle of the Coral Sea but the fact is that only the ANZAC force stood in the way of a Japanese capture of Port Moresby and the complete isolation of Australia from the rest of the world.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-battles/ww2/coral_sea.htm (2521 words)

	Oceanic Period
		The navy remained wedded to the battleship, the centerpiece of the U.S. Plan Orange strategy for a war with Japan that was to be won by a climactic and decisive engagement in the central Pacific.
		No single battle or campaign proved decisive, but a series of carrier battles fought in 1942 in the Coral Sea, at Midway, and in support of operations in the Solomon Islands turned the seemingly inexorable tide of the Japanese advance.
		Rather than acknowledge their defeat, the Japanese continued the struggle until the entry of the Soviet Union into the war and the dropping of atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki shocked Japan into surrender.
	www.history.navy.mil /history/history3.htm (2068 words)

	Naming of Warships in the Imperial Japanese Navy
		The conventions and rules for naming Imperial Japanese Navy ships went through a number of phases before settling on the system used during World War 2.
		Japanese ship names were applied in accordance with normal practice at the time, with consideration occasionally given to other factors.
		Since no Romanization of Japanese has any legal or official validity in Japan, Romanization is more an issue for non-Japanese reading and writing about the IJN than for the Japanese themselves.
	www.navweaps.com /index_tech/tech-098.htm (1461 words)

	NAVY GIFTS - LAPD Authors
		The United States Navy can trace its origins to the Continental Navy, which was established during the American Revolutionary War, but was disbanded not long afterwards in the year 1790.
		The navy was a part of the conflict from the very beginning of American involvement to the very end of the war, and proved to be a vital element in the success of the Allies.
		It was also heavily involved in the subsequent Cold War, in which the U.S. Navy participated in Vietnam War operations and roamed the seas with carrier battle groups, minesweeping patrol squadrons and submarines in support of allies.
	www.lapdauthors.com /navy-gifts/navy_history.html (1779 words)

	Battles of the Imperial Japanese Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Naval Battle of Hakodate, May 1869 (Imperial Navy victory over the remnants of the Shogun's Navy of the Republic of Ezo.)
		In the Mediterranean, a fleet consisting of one armoured cruiser, Nisshin, and eight of the Navy's newest destroyers under Admiral Satō Kōzō, was based in Malta and efficiently protected allied shipping between Marseilles, Taranto and ports in Egypt until the end of the War.
		Battle of the Eastern Solomons (24 August 1942, inconclusive)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battles_of_the_Imperial_Japanese_Navy (423 words)

	A Priceless Advantage: U.S. Navy Communications Intelligence and the Battles of Coral Sea, Midway, and the ...
		The Japanese Combined Fleet's ambitious plan for the seizure of Midway and the Aleutians and for an epic naval battle with the U.S. Pacific Fleet involved a massive force consisting of warships, transports, auxiliaries, and air strength.
		Japanese messages translated on the 13th obligingly provided clarification of Japanese intentions in the Hawaiian and Aleutian Islands and reduced American anxiety concerning a possible Japanese threat to the West Coast.
		Japanese communications analysts detected the spurious radio transmissions and reported to Admiral Yamamoto that while he and the Main Body were en route to Midway an American carrier task force remained in the Coral Sea.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/PTO/Magic/COMINT-CoralSea/PartTwo.html (16543 words)

	NAVAL-HISTORY.NET
		Battle of Cape Matapan, Battle for Crete, sinking of 'Bismarck
		Raid on Dieppe, Battles of Midway and Alamein
		Battles for Tunis and North Africa, Battle of Atlantic peaks
	www.naval-history.net (981 words)

	FW: The Carrier Battles
		Carrier battles make for interesting campaigns as they were carried out by limited forces (those aboard ship) at a set of limited targets (an island or an opposing task force), unhindered and unaided by units outside the scope of the campaign - especially across the trackless expanses of the Pacific.
		The Japanese were aware of the presence of US carriers in the area, and hoped to nail one to help even up the odds after Midway.
		The Japanese naval units were engaged in a complex movement involved in covering the movement of a troop convoy to Guadalcanal.
	world.std.com /~ted7/cCarrier.htm (1836 words)

	IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY MYSTERIES
		The Sho Operation plans that the Imperial Japanese Empire drew up for the defense of the Philippines in 1944 were ambitious and desperate.
		Although the embattled Japanese could not know it, the worst of the nightmare was past.
		The Japanese sources themselves confuse the issue with TAIYO's TROM, which indicates the carrier survived one hit, only to be sunk in a second attack, while the War Diary implies sudden destruction by equating her with the first ship that RASHER stated blew apart.
	www.combinedfleet.com /atully05.htm (3902 words)

	Yamato - Japanese Battleship
		The anti-aircraft defences were greatly increased in 1943 at Kure but as she returned to Truk on December 25, 1943 she was badly damaged by a torpedo from USS Skate and was not fully repaired until April 1944.
		She returned to the conflict and joined the Japanese fleet in the Battle of the Philippine Sea (June) and the Battles of Leyte Gulf and Samar Gulf (October), during which she first fired her main guns.
		The navy assembled a force of six battleships and almost thirty escorts to intercept if the air-strikes did not succeed.
	www.japan-101.com /history/japanese_battleship_yamato.htm (665 words)

	Nihon Kaigun
		At the beginning of the Second World War, the Japanese Navy (or, in the Japanese language, Nihon Kaigun, or even Teikoku Kaigun, the Imperial Navy) was arguably the most powerful navy in the world.
		How and why this impressive force was eventually crushed by the U.S. Navy is a subject that has fascinated me practically forever.
		The thirty-five most important battles of the Pacific War, complete with order of battle and losses, accessible through a map-driven interface.
	www.combinedfleet.com /kaigun.htm (1053 words)

	Imperial Japanese Navy Battleships
		Japanese battlecruisers (and heavy cruisers) are named after mountains.
		While the Japanese may have complained the loudest about the battleship "ratio" (for every 5 RN and 5 USN battleships, the IJN got 3) in the Treaty, France and Italy may have had more to complain about.
		Two Japanese battlecruisers were lost in surface actions in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
	home.att.net /~wellsbrothers/Battleships/IJNBBtable.html (1279 words)

	A Code for Tomorrow - PowerBookSearch!
		In his sequel to the WWII adventure The Last Lieutenant, former navy lieutenant Gobbell unfolds a pedestrian tale of combat, espionage and romance in the Pacific during 1942.
		Officer Todd Ingram is serving on a destroyer as the U.S. Navy battles the Japanese Imperial Navy around the hotly contested Solomon Islands.
		Helen proves resourceful, however, rescuing her would-be rescuer as she leads a Filipino guerrilla unit in an attack on the Japanese naval base where Ingram is held.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0312971427.html (1808 words)

	TORTOISE PAGE Pacific Links
		The purpose of this paper is to discuss the stragetic importance of Saipan, the Japanese defense of the island, and the United States invasion of the island.
		The Battle of the Philippine Sea 19-20 June 1944
		A study of quality on some ships of the Japanese Imperial Navy.
	www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/oxford/285/pacific.htm (617 words)

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