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	Japanese Navy Ships--Chikuma (Heavy Cruiser, 1939)
		Chikuma's design provided a large seaplane capacity, fitting her for long-range scouting missions, and she was extensively employed during the Second World War as a consort for aircraft carriers.
		She again was with the Japanese carriers when they were decisively defeated in the Battle of Midway on 4 June 1942.
		Japanese heavy cruiser Chikuma underway during the battle, as seen from a USS Enterprise (CV-6) aircraft, 26 October 1942.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/japan/japsh-c/chikuma2.htm (829 words)

	Japanese cruiser Tsushima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tsushima (対馬) was an protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy, designed and built in Japan by the Kure Naval Yards near Hiroshima.
		The Tsushima-class cruisers were fitted with 16 213 Niclausse boilers, a great improvement on the locomotive boilers of the Suma.
		In February 1915, the Japanese Navy also helped suppress a mutiny by Indian Sepoys in Singapore, sending 158 marines from the cruisers Otowa and Tsushima.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Tsushima (416 words)

	Japanese cruiser Tenryu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		IJN Tenryu (天龍)　was the lead ship in the Tenryu class of light cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
		In terms of armaments, these ships were the first in the Imperial Japanese Navy to use 5.5 inch (140 mm) guns and were also the first armed with triple 550 mm torpedoes.
		After the Battle of Midway the Tenryu and Tatsuta were assigned to the 8th fleet, still operating as the 18th Cruiser Squadron, and landed troops to occupy Buna, New Guinea, in July.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Tenryu (403 words)

	Carrier Battles in the Pacific - 1942 ... and other WWII battles in the Pacific (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Japanese wish to retake the Henderson field from the US marines sparked the major fleet action which came to be known as the Battle of Santa Cruz islands.
		But the Japanese were not unprepared for this: remembering what had happened in the Battle of Midway, Japanese spread the hoses over the decks and as soon as the last bomb landed they were played upon the flames, and through superb fire fighting all the fires were out by 1430.
		Japanese were in radar range at 2015 and it was too dangerous for two ships to be there anymore, and at 2040 two destroyers fled.
	www.everblue.net /1942/santacruz.php (3311 words)

	Avalanche Press
		Japanese gunnery officers had been unhappy with the gunnery performance of their Type A (heavy) cruisers for some time.
		Japanese designers considered the speed gained in launching aircraft to be worth the weather damage inevitable incurred by the seaplanes.
		Chikuma was caught by American planes the next day and destroyed; Tone survived the battle but was sunk at her moorings in Kure by American carrier planes in August 1945.
	www.avalanchepress.com /JapaneseCarriers.php (1043 words)

	Heermann dd 532 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Japanese records claim that the battleship~successfully evaded all of Heermann's torpedoes, but they were slowed down in their pursuit of the American carriers.
		One of her guns was knocked out but the others continued to pour a deadly stream of 5-inch shells at the cruiser, which also came under heavy air attack during the engagement.
		As Chikuma turned away, heavy cruiser Tone turned her guns on Heermann who replied shell for shell until she reached a position suitable to resume laying smoke for the carriers.
	www.multied.com /1812/Ghent.htmlhttp://www.multied.com/Navy/destroyer/Heermanndd532.html (1970 words)

	Building the Heavy Cruiser Tone
		Laid down in 1934 as the next step in Japanese Cruiser design, the Tone and Chikuma were originally conceived as large light cruisers, with the same armament (6.1 inch guns) as were mounted on the Mogami-class.
		As the Japanese fleet retired from the Midway debacle, CruDiv 8 was dispatched to support the Aleutian Island operations, in anticipation of an American counter-attack that never came.
		She and Chikuma escorted the carrier Ryujo during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons on August 24, 1942, escaping serious damage while Ryujo was sunk.
	www.modelwarships.com /reviews/ships/ijn/ca/tone/350-minekaze-mq/buildingtheCATone.htm (4069 words)

	"Chikuma" Photo Gallery
		Chikuma as seen from Tone during the naval manoevres of 1940.
		Chikuma photographed from a USS Saratoga SBD scout bomber's gun camera, during the raid on Rabaul, 5 November 1943.
		Chikuma dead in the water off Samar on 25 October 1944 with a destroyer, probably Nowaki, standing by outside of the oil slick.
	www.warship.get.net.pl /Japonia/Cruisers/CA_1938_Tone_class/_Chikuma_photos.html (927 words)

	Imperial Cruisers
		CHIKUMA and destroyer TERUZUKI thrust eastward of the Vanguard Force and the cruiser's planes canvass the ocean.
		CruDiv 8's CHIKUMA and TONE depart Truk for Yokosuka with Admiral Koga embarked on MUSASHI accompanied by Bat Div 3's KONGO and HARUNA, CarDiv 2's JUNYO and HIYO, DesDiv 11's NIIZUKI, DesDiv 17's TANIKAZE and HAMAKAZE, DesDiv 24's UMIKAZE and SUZUKAZE, DesDiv 27's ARIAKE and SHIGURE, DesDiv 61's HATSUZUKI and SUZUTSUKI.
		CHIKUMA and TONE are assigned to Rear Admiral (later Vice Admiral) Nishimura Shoji's (former CO of HARUNA) CruDiv 7 with KUMANO and SUZUYA.
	www.combinedfleet.com /chikuma_t.htm (4645 words)

	CV-8 USS HORNET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Japanese carrier-based planes were reported headed for Midway the earlymorning of 4 June 1942.
		Two other cruisers were also attacked by Hornet aircraft.Meanwhile, Hornet, herself, was fighting off a coordinated dive bombingand torpedo plane attack which left her so severely damaged that she hadto be abandoned.
		Japanese destroyers hastened the inevitable by firing four 24-inchtorpedoes at her blazing hull.
	www.multied.com /navy/Cv8Hornet.html (1107 words)

	Saxon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Japanese cooperation is all the more surprising given that both British and American historians have characterized Japan’s role in the First World War as that of a “jackal state,” one that took a lion’s share of the kill after only minimally assisting the cause.
		The Japanese navy relieved the Akashi in June 1917 with the armored cruiser Izumo and reinforced the Malta squadron with the destroyers Kashi, Hinoki, Momo, and Yanagi.
		Japanese destroyers’; ratio of time at sea to time in port was the highest of any allied warships during the war: Japanese warships were under way 72 percent of the time.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /press/Review/2000/winter/art3-w00.htm (8958 words)

	Battle of Midway - Events of 5-7 JUNE 1942
		The advantage in night actions would lie with the Japanese who had developed a high degree of technical skill in night fighting at sea, and Yamamoto was aware that the American carriers would be hampered by the difficulty of launching and recovering aircraft at night.
		The two Japanese cruisers were bombed and further damaged by aircraft from Midway on 5 June.
		Exact numbers are not known because the Japanese Navy went to extraordinary lengths to conceal the magnitude of its defeat at Midway, even to the extent of isolating survivors from their families.
	www.users.bigpond.com /pacificwar/Midway/June5_6.html (1035 words)

	The Battle of Midway \| InfoResource Network>Subjects>History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When Germany invaded the USSR in June, Japanese leaders considered breaking the treaty and joining in from the east, nevertheless, in making one of the most fateful decisions of the war, they chose instead to intensify their push to the southeast.
		With their naval offensive capacity crippled, the Japanese were forced to adopt a more defensive posture, while the Allies had time to regroup and halt further Japanese expansion and to formulate the island-hopping strategy used to reconquer the Pacific.
		A Japanese submarine was unable to locate the slightly damaged plane, but American ground forces, led by men of the redoubtable Alaskan Scouts did, revealing for the first time the negative points of the Zero, which eventually resulted in its defeat.
	inforesource.ciantechnologies.com /history/midway.html (2724 words)

	Japanese Navy, World War 1
		Most Japanese wartime losses apart from the Tsingtau operation, were due to accidents, but in the Mediterranean, one destroyer was torpedoed and badly damaged.
		Takachiho was part of the large Japanese fleet engaged in the capture of the German base of Tsingtau in northern China.
		Chikuma joined the hunt for 'Emden' in the East Indies and Indian Ocean in September, and later prepared to move to the Pacific in the hunt for von Spee
	www.naval-history.net /WW1NavyJapanese.htm (2249 words)

	Japanese Ships to Pearl Harbor
		Japanese Pearl Harbor Attack Force detaches carriers Hiryu and Soryu, heavy cruisers Tone and Chikuma, and two destroyers to reinforce the second attack on Wake Island.
		Japanese Carrier Strike Force formed around carriers Shokaku and Zuikaku is located and taken under air at of those two carriers for several months, thus making them unavailable for immediate operations (Midway).
		Japanese destroyers Kagero, Hakigaze, Maikaze, Urakaze, Isokaze and Hamikaze begin landing 916 troops of the Imperial Army's Ichiki Detachment on Guadalcanal.
	www.ww2pacific.com /pearljp.html (1679 words)

	Heermann
		One of her guns was knocked out but the others continued to pour a deadly stream of 5-inch shells at the cruiser, which also carne under heavy air attack during the engagement.
		The combined effect of Heermann's guns and the bombs, torpedoes, and strafing from carrier-based planes was too much for Chikuma who tried to withdraw but sank during her flight.
		On 18 April wifih the assistance destroyers Mertz, MoCord, Collett, and Uhlmann and planes from aircraft carrier Bataan, Heermann sank Japanese submarine 1-56, a carrier of the dreaded "kaitens", human-guided suicide torpedoes.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/h4/heermann.htm (2051 words)

	DD-532 DANFS
		Japanese records claim that the battleship successfully evaded all of Heermann's torpedoes, but they were slowed down in their pursuit of the American carriers.
		The giant, Yamato, with her monstrous 18.1-inch guns, was even forced out of the action altogether when, caught between two spreads, she reversed course for almost 10 minutes to escape being hit.
		A series of 8-inch hits flooded the forward part of the plucky destroyer, pulling her bow down so far that her anchors were dragging in the water.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/destroy/dd532txt.htm (1972 words)

	Battle of Midway Models
		The TBDs were spotted at 1010 by the Japanese cruiser Chikuma, which fired her main guns to point out the attackers to the Combat Air Patrol, when they were about 15 miles from the nearest carrier.
		This meant the Japanese pilot would have a very difficult full-deflection shot, which was made even more difficult due to the fact that the Zero would often not be able to gain the necessary lead because of his speed.
		The Japanese pilot was aggressive and stuck on Dibb's tail.
	home.centurytel.net /midway/tate/f4f5093.html (1886 words)

	Charles Heinl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It was a crack Japanese fleet steaming south at top speed to attack the Allied landing force at Leyte.
		The IJN (Japanese) after firing for one hour and eleven minutes finally scored their first hit, as the ships action reports states.
		A large Japanese cruiser (Chikuma) closed to point-blank, a mere 2,000 yards away, and pumped 8-inch shells into the Gambier Bay's thin hull.
	www.ussgambierbay-vc10.com /survivorsAccount/airDept/cgheinl.htm (2475 words)

	Battle of Midway - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The attack on the island of Midway, which also included a feint to Alaska by a smaller fleet, was a ploy by the Japanese to draw the American carrier fleet into a trap.
		If the Japanese referred to this in their coded messages, then the US knew that Japan was planning to attack Midway.
		Aircraft launched from the remaining Japanese carrier Hiryu struck the USS Yorktown, which was severely damaged, but survived this and a second attack, only to be sunk by a Japanese submarine on June 7.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Battle_of_Midway (604 words)

	List of ships of the Japanese Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is the list of ships of Japan's medieval Navy, the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
		Red seal ships - Around 350 armed sailships, commissionned by the Bakufu in the early 17th century, for Asian and South-East Asian trade.
		ex-Russian armored cruisers as prizes of the Russo-Japanese War
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_ships_of_the_Japanese_Navy (603 words)

	Imperial Japanese Navy Deployment 1914
		Lacroix and Wells's monumental "Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War" gives detailed information on Japanese fleet organization and other matters back at least to the turn of the century, the title notwithstanding.
		Below is the basic structure of the Japanese navy under the reorganization of 10 July 1914; they do not tell which ships were in each formation, so I'm not sure whether this will be helpful.
		Under the previous organization all battleships as well as many cruisers were in the First Fleet; cruisers and coast-defense ships comprised the Second and Third Fleets; destroyers were in divisions of four ships attached to naval stations and sometimes to the fleets.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/fdjn0001.htm (545 words)

	USS HEERMANN (DD 532)
		At the outset of the engagement she laid protective smoke in the rear of the escort carriers with the smaller DE's.
		When the word, "small boys - intercept," was ordered by RADM Sprague, she bravely turned to attack the heavy cruisers and battleships of Centre Force.
		The mighty Japanese battleship HIJMS YAMATO was forced to comb her torpedo wakes and was subsequently placed out of position for the remainder of the action.
	www.bosamar.com /usforces/dd532.html (1614 words)

	USS HORNET CV-8
		Japanese carrier-based planes were reported headed for Midway in the early morning.
		Meanwhile, ENTERPRISE was hidden by a local rain squall, and HORNET, became the focal point of the Japanese coordinated dive bombing and torpedo plane attack which left her so severely damaged that she had to be abandoned.
		Japanese destroyers hastened the inevitable by firing four 24-inch torpedoes at her blazing hull.
	www.its.caltech.edu /~drmiles/cv-8.html (818 words)

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		Intercepted broadcasts, both in Japanese and English, confirmed at 1446 the success of the raids.
		Japanese carrier-based planes were reported headed for Midway the early morning of 4 June 1942.
		HORNET planes attacked the fleeing Japanese fleet 6 June 1942 to assist in sinking cruiser Mikuma, damaged a destroyer, and left cruiser Mogami aflame and heavily damaged.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/carriers/cv8.htm (1146 words)

	Fujimi 1/700 Heavy Cruiser 'Chikuma' Preview
		The heavy cruiser Chikuma is one of a two ship class; the other ship being the Tone.
		These were the newest and last heavy cruisers built for the Japanese Navy to use in WWII.
		Chikuma's sister ship, the Tone, was sunk in late 1945 while at anchorage in Kure.
	modelingmadness.com /scotts/misc/ships/chikumapreview.htm (611 words)

	U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Aircraft Carriers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A strong Japanese thrust to occupy Midway Island was led by a four-carrier Mobile Force, supported by heavy units of the Japanese First Fleet.
		The Japanese attack on Midway was met by a greatly outnumbered U.S. carrier force composed of Task Force 17 with USS Yorktown (CV 5) and Task Force 16 with USS Hornet (CV 8) and USS Enterprise (CV 6).
		In the ensuing battle, the four large Japanese carriers were sunk, carrying with them 258 planes along with a high percentage of Japan's most highly trained and battle-experienced carrier pilots, a blow to Japan from which she could not recover.
	www.navy.mil /navydata/ships/carriers/cv-hist2.html (838 words)

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