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	Japanese Navy Ships--Haruna (Battlecruiser & Battleship, 1915-1945)
		Reclassified thereafter as a battleship, Haruna was again modernized in 1933-34, this time at Kure Dockyard, raising her standard displacement to over 32,000 tons and giving her a quite up-to-date appearance.
		In June, she was part of the ill-fated Japanese carrier force during the Battle of Midway and was lightly damaged when a bomb nearly hit her stern.
		Stationed in Japanese waters by the beginning of 1945, Haruna was damaged at Kure during the U.S. carrier plane raids on 19 March.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/japan/japsh-h/haruna.htm (905 words)

	Mount Haruna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Haruna (Japanese: 榛名山) is an active stratovolcano in eastern Honshu, Japan.
		The mountain is where the main character, Takumi Fujiwara, delivers tofu everyday to a hotel uphill, using his Toyota Sprinter-Trueno (AE86).
		The battleship Haruna was named after the mountain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Akina (117 words)

	Japanese battleship Haruna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Haruna under attack at her moorings at Kure, Japan, on 28 July 1945
		Eight 14 inch guns, sixteen 6 inch guns, eight 5 inch DP, up to 118 × 25 mm AA Haruna (榛名) was a Kongo class battleship laid down by the Kawasaki Shipbuilding Company at Kobe on 16 March 1912, launched on 14 December 1913 and completed on 19 April 1915.
		She was named after Mount Haruna, an active volcano.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_battleship_Haruna (126 words)

	Japanese battleship Yamato - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Japanese battleship Yamato (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Japanese battleship class of World War II, consisting of the Yamato and the Musashi.
		Designed to be bigger and more powerful than any other warship in the world, they displaced 64,170 tons, had a speed of 27 knots, armour 400 mm thick, carried nine 460 mm, twelve 155 mm, and twelve 127 mm guns, and had a crew of 2,500.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Japanese+battleship+Yamato (191 words)

	Definition of Battle of the Philippine Sea
		The action was a disaster for the Japanese forces, who lost almost all of their carrier-borne aircraft and a third of the carriers involved in the battle.
		Losses from the battle of Midway had been largely replaced in terms of numbers of carriers, and since the US attacking Japanese held islands on their "island hopping campaign", the lack of planes themselves could be addressed with the addition of strong land based forces.
		The Japanese forces had been sighted on June 15th by American submarines, and by the next day Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, commander of the US Fifth Fleet, was convinced a major battle was about to start.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Battle_of_the_Philippine_Sea (2233 words)

	World War II Plus 55 - December 8 - 12, 1941
		American radar picks off the Japanese, send the message to Clark Field...and nobody gets it because the teletype operator has gone to lunch, along with the fighter and bomber pilots, who loll on the grass while eating their sandwiches.
		The Japanese bombs wreck the island's fuel tanks and incinerate nine aircraft.
		Kelly's deeds are mistakenly reported as him having flown his bomber down the stack of the Japanese battleship Haruna, sending her to the bottom, and receiving the Medal of Honor.
	www.usswashington.com /dl08de41.htm (2468 words)

	Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress - heavy bomber - originally conceived as maritime patrol and anti-shipping bomber
		The first great success attributed to the B-17 was the sinking of the Japanese battleship Haruna off Luzon during the invasion of the Philippines, by a Fortress piloted by Colin Kelly, who thereby became one of the first American popular heroes of World War Two.
		At Midway Hiryu - one of the crippled and burning Japanese carriers - was strafed by a B-17 and one of her AA guns was damaged.
		While this in part expressed their respect for the defensive firepower of the Fortress, it was more an expression of the Japanese contempt for high-level bombing as a method of attack on ships - the Japanese high command, especially that of the Navy, had never believed in it.
	www.angelfire.com /fm/odyssey/2-b17.htm (925 words)

	BATTLE OF MIDWAY--Midway-based Bomber Attacks on the Japanese Carrier Striking Force, 4 June 1942
		They attacked the Japanese carrier Hiryu, scoring a near miss and causing a few casualties with machinegun fire.
		While all this was taking place, the Japanese also had to contend with the stealthy presence of the submarine Nautilus (SS-168), which poked up her periscope in the middle of their formation and fired a torpedo that missed.
		The Japanese carriers recovered the planes returning from hitting the U.S. base and began preparing a second attack, this one targeting a U.S. Navy task force that had been unexpectedly discovered to the east.
	history.navy.mil /photos/events/wwii-pac/midway/mid-4d.htm (698 words)

	Leyte - Chapter Six - "Cape Engaño: 'A Ringside Seat'" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The earlier scenes of slaughter were repeated yet again by the fighters and dive bombers, which slammed their weapons into all four Japanese battleships, as well as some of the cruisers and destroyers, sinking destroyer Akishimo and leaving the way largely clear for the Avengers.
		Although the Japanese had greatly increased the armor protecting Nagato’s magazines, they had done nothing for her machinery, which in any case had never been very heavily armored, and therefore it was pathetically easy for a shell to explode against a turbine casing in the outboard starboard engine room.
		The oldest surviving Japanese battleship, Haruna had been included in this squadron not for her armor or armament, both of which were sadly deficient at this stage of her career, but for her speed, which was still greater than that of any other Japanese battleship.
	home.att.net /~leverett/leyte6.html (4580 words)

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		Wasp was sunk by a Japanese submarine in 1942.
		Musashi Japanese battleship Myoko 24 October 1944 Japanese cruiser One of the 'super battleships', Musashi was sunk by air attack in the battle of the Sibuyan Sea, part of the battle of Leyte.
		Yamato Japanese battleship Yahigi Japanese cruiser Asasjimo Japanese destroyer Kamakaze Japanese destroyer Isokaze Japanese destroyer Kasumi 7 April 1945 Japanese destroyer The 'super battleship' Yamato, the cruiser Yahagi and eight destroyers were on their way for a suicide attack on US forces at Okinawa.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/history/marshall/military/airforce/varia.txt (7613 words)

	Japanese battleship Haruna . 1911 . 1946 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Haruna 榛名 was a Japanese battleship Kongo Kongo class battleship laid down by the Kawasaki Shipbuilding Company at Kobe on 16 March 1912, launched on 14 December 1913 and completed on 19 April 1915.
		She was named after Mt. Haruna, an active volcano.
		The tomb holds an unidentified Canadian soldier who died in France during World War I. The body of the soldier was formerly buried near the memorial at Vimy Ridge, Pas-de-calais, France,...
	www.uk.fraquisanto.net /Japanese_battleship_Haruna (439 words)

	Japanese Navy Ships--Hiei (Battlecruiser, Training Ship & Battleship, 1915-1942)
		Her high speed made her very useful as a companion to aircraft carriers, and she was part of the striking force that attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.
		She was a unit of the Covering Group during the Battle of Midway in early June and immediately thereafter was sent to the North Pacific to support Japanese operations in the Aleutian Islands.
		She was the first of ten Japanese battleships lost to enemy action in World War II.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/japan/japsh-h/hiei2.htm (852 words)

	The Battleship Kongo
		The Japanese battleship Kongô, a ship with a magical name and an important history, was budgeted in 1910 and ordered from the British shipbuilder Vickers in January 1911.
		Battleships proper were named for the old Japanese provinces, and cruisers for rivers.
		Battleships had always required masts for spotting, range finding, and fire control, but the need for height increased as possible ranges of targets increased and eyeballing was replaced by heavy optical equipment.
	www.friesian.com /kongo.htm (6746 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - USS Intrepid (CV-11) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		At the Battle of Surigao Strait, the Third Fleet sank the Japanese battleship Musashi and damaged Yamato, Nagato, and Haruna.
		Pursuing the Japanese north, Intrepid's pilots took part in the Battle of Cape Engaño, which cost the Japanese the carriers Zuiho, Chitose, Zuikaku, and Chiyoda.
		On November 25, as the Americans tried to prevent Japanese reinforcements from landing on Luzon, the "Evil I," as she was becoming known, was crashed by two kamikazes that killed 65 of her crew and forced her to San Francisco for repairs.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_048500_ussintrepid2.htm (576 words)

	HyperWar: History of USMC Operations in WWII, Vol. I: Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal, Part V [Chapter 4]
		The pilots reported having hit "two battleships or heavy cruisers" and two transports in the group then 570 miles away from Midway, but the fliers were mistaken in both ship identification and in calling their shots, for they actually hit nothing.
		JAPANESE CRUISER MIKUMA, sunk at the Battle of Midway, lies battered and smoking from the attacks of pilots of MAG-22 and the American carriers.
		But Japanese authorities claim that only six of their planes--three level bombers, two dive bombers, and a fighter--failed to make it back to the carriers.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USMC/I/USMC-I-V-4.html (1975 words)

	ks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Japanese battleship Haruna off Luzon in the Philippines on Dec. 10, 1941.
		While returning to base, Kelly's B-17 was set on fire by Japanese airplanes and one waist gunner was killed.
		At that early period of the war, the Haruna was operating hundreds of miles away off Malaysia.
	avstop.com /news/ks.html (127 words)

	wwwroot08
		This didn't prevent him from claiming that he had bloodily repulsed a Japanese landing attempt when all that had happened was that a half-trained Filipino division had opened up on a single Japanese motorboat reconnoitering in the darkness of Lingayen Gulf.
		Another exploit given tremendous play was the reported sinking of the Japanese battleship Haruna by a B-17 flown by Captain Colin Kelly, who died in the raid.
		The Japanese premier was talking about eventual independence for the Islands and the sick Quezon yearned to return to Manila whose lights he could see glittering across the bay.
	www.users.interport.net /t/o/tomtud/wwwroot08.html (2586 words)

	Kongo, Haruna, Hiei, Kirishima Battleships
		These Japanese battleships were designed by Sir George Thurston, and based on the Royal navy Lion Class.
		This was increased on the Haruna and Kongo by June 1944 to the 5 -inch guns were increased to twelve.
		This Battleship was lost on the 13th November 1942, during the night action off Guadalcanal.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /kongo.htm (602 words)

	Imperial Japanese Navy Battleships
		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.
		On those occasions when Japanese battleships and battlecruisers were used, they were not terribly effective.
		Yamato, Nagato, Haruna and Kongo along with numerous cruisers and destroyers, under the command of Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita, are effectively defeated by the decidedly inferior Task Group 77.4.3, (better known as "Taffy 3") under the command of Rear Adm. Clifton A.F. Sprague.
	home.att.net /~wellsbrothers/Battleships/IJNBBtable.html (1279 words)

	Model Warships.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This Battleship ship was built up from an old Bandai Kit of the 1/600 scale series Haruna.
		This was one of those kits intended by Japanese manufacturers to have a giant ugly propeller for a single shaft single rudder, The Hull appears drawn nice but the pagoda tower was terrible.
		Unlike most Japanese kits were the tower builds up in platforms which looks rather cool, this one had one two halves that glued together to form a tower.
	www.modelshipgallery.com /gallery/bb/ijn/haruna-600-mg/mg-main.html (148 words)

	Japanese battleship Yamashiro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Yamashiro (山城) was the Imperial Japanese Navy's second Fuso-class battleship, and was laid down at the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on November 20, 1913, launched on November 3, 1915, and commissioned on March 31, 1917.
		The ship was named after the Japanese province where Kyoto was located.
		At the battle of Surigao Strait on October 25, 1944, she came under attack and was sunk by U.S. naval forces.
	japanese-battleship-yamashiro.ask.dyndns.dk (133 words)

	Take One Dose Of Cynicism... - Asylum Forums
		Captain kelly was a pilot of a B-17 flying out of Clark Field in the Philippines when on Dec 10, 1941, just three days after Pearl Harbor he spotted a large Japanese ship and thumbed hastily through his pocket ship identifier and identified the ship as the Japanese battleship "Haruna".
		It was not until the war was over however that we learned that the ship Kelly sank that day was not the "Haruna" but the Japanese light cruiser "Ashagara".
		The "Haruna" was several hundred miles away off the coast of Malaya on that date.
	www.asylumnation.com /asylum/_r/showthread/threadid_30335 (750 words)

	Midway History 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Inasmuch as "The Battle of Midway was decided on June 4th with the destruction of the enemy's air power,"[49] operations on 5 June assumed the nature of pursuit and mopping up, in the course of which VMSB-241 struck the final Marine blow of the battle.
		Meanwhile, Fleming's glide-bombing run had taken the Japanese by surprise,[53] although their antiaircraft fire was prompt and heavy once they attack was disclosed.
		She was finally sunk in Japanese waters by Navy carrier planes on 28 July 1945.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /micronesia/about_destin/midway_history4.html (5583 words)

	B-17 in Pacific Theatre
		The Japanese regarded the B-17 as a tough and well-armed opponent, one that was particularly difficult to shoot down.
		Fortress pilots were able to compensate somewhat for this weakness by jinking their planes back and forth when attacked from the rear, giving the left and right waist gunners alternatively a shot at the approaching aircraft.
		The tail gunner of the B-17E was an unpleasant surprise for the Japanese, who had become accustomed to attacking the Fortress from the rear.
	home.att.net /~jbaugher2/b17_20.html (2027 words)

	Eric Margolis \| Foreign Correspondent : TAFFY-3. A STUDY IN HEROISM
		At 14,000 yards, the pagoda-masted Japanese battleship ‘Kongo,’; opened fire on ‘Hoel’ with its 14-inch main battery and secondary guns.
		The rest of the Japanese fleet raked the attacking destroyers, and pounded the fleeing jeep carriers.
		Hours before, Adm Jesse Oldendorf’s old battleships, raised from the bottom of Pearl Harbor, crossed the enemy T at Surigao Strait, annihilating the second Japanese pincer, sinking two enemy battleships.
	www.ericmargolis.com /archives/1998/11/taffy3_a_study.php (809 words)

	Captain Colin P. Kelly
		The crew spotted a large ship they believed to be the battleship Haruna and from a height of 20,000 dropped three 600 pound bombs.
		Though smoke obscured the target, Kelly and his men believed that at least one bomb struck the ship, and that it was probably destroyed.
		In fact the Haruna was not in the vicinity and Kelly's plane had perhaps bombed a large transport or the light cruiser Ashigara, neither of which had sunk.
	www.floridamemory.com /FloridaHighlights/Kelly/Kelly.cfm (449 words)

	Sun.Star Pampanga - America's first hero of World War II honored
		A groundbreaking ceremony was held at a 1000-square meter lot in the barangay for the construction of the Capt. Colin P. Kelly Jr.
		Kelly was credited at that time with attacking and sinking the Japanese battleship Haruna off Luzon in the Philippines on Dec. 10, 1941.
		During the war, the Haruna was operating hundreds of miles away off Malaysia.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/pam/2005/06/16/news/america.s.first.hero.of.world.war.ii.honored.html (399 words)

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