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	Japanese cruiser Takao - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In August 1942 she was assigned to Operation Ka, the Japanese reinforcement during the Battle of Guadalcanal and participated in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on 26 October.
		Takao was hit by two bombs, killing 23 and damaging her steering; she was forced to return to Yokosuka in Japan for dry dock repairs.
		On 5 September 1945, the Straits of Johor naval base was surrendered by the Japanese to the British and the formal boarding of the still partially manned Takao was on 21 September 1945.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Takao (840 words)

	Japanese Heavy Cruiser Takao
		The heavy cruiser Takao was one of the mammoth Japanese "treaty cruisers" (or "A" class cruisers) built theoretically to the limits of the Washington Naval Treaty--10,000 tons but modified during construction to reflect the London Naval Treaty of 1930 and eventually displacing nearly 15,000 tons.
		Takao itself was primarily support for the fast carrier and amphibious assault units that expanded Japanese territory before May 1942; afterwards, she and her three sisters (Chokai, Maya, and Atago) were primarily retained as carrier escorts or as a raiding group.
		Takao was in fact close in many ways to being a capital ship; although she only carried a cruiser's guns, the torpedo tubes, displacement, and speed were closer to being worthy of a battlecruiser.
	www.eden.rutgers.edu /~lfbraun/takao.html (935 words)

	Encyclopedia: Battle of Leyte Gulf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Australian heavy cruiser HMAS Australia was hit on 21 October, and organized suicide attacks by the "Special Attack Force" began on 25 October.
		The battles of 1943 drove the Imperial Japanese Army from its bases in the Solomon Islands, and in 1944 a series of Allied amphibious landings supported by large carrier forces captured the Marianas Islands.
		The crew of Zuikaku salute as the flag is lowered, and the Zuikaku ceases to be the flagship of the Japanese Navy.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Battle-of-Leyte-Gulf (8816 words)

	Takao biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A type of Japanese cruiser class during World War II.
		Japanese cruiser Takao - A name for a Japanese Takao class cruiser involved in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
		Japanese name for Kaohsiung after Taiwan was ceded to Japan as part of the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895.
	takao.biography.ms (198 words)

	IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY MYSTERIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Retired Commodore Allen Dollard, who was a lieutenant in HMAS Australia at sea on the night of the attack, says the flaws in the harbour defence had not been suspected generally because of the secrecy of the anti-submarine operation.
		The pride of place of the Japanese midget is acknowleged as legitimate by veterans of the Australian submarine and anti-submarine services but they are pressing for a display featuring models of British X-craft in which many Australians served because of their training in those areas.
		Compared with the Japanese record, the British X-craft had achieved very important success, and had shown that it was possible to strike targets and return safely to base.
	www.combinedfleet.com /Tully/sydney42.html (1756 words)

	Takao - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Takao, a cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy, named after the mountain.
		The Japanese name for Kaohsiung after Formosa was ceded to Japan as part of the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895.
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Takao (99 words)

	Japanese cruiser Chokai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Chokai was a Takao-class heavy cruiser, armed with ten 8" guns, eight 5" guns, sixteen torpedo tubes and assorted anti-aircraft guns.
		Chokai was designed with the Imperial Japanese Navy strategy of the Decisive Battle in mind, and built in 1932 by Mitsubishi's shipyard in Nagasaki.
		Chokai was then transferred to Cruiser Division Five, where she survived another vicious attack on October 24, this time by aircraft.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/J/Japanese-cruiser-Chokai.htm (580 words)

	Japanese cruiser Takao - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Japanese cruiser Takao (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Japanese cruiser Takao - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Japanese cruiser Takao.
		It was during this berthing that she was attacked on 31st July 1945 by British mini sub XE3 commanded by Lieutenant Ian Edward Fraser and Acting Leading Seaman James Joseph Magennis which was awarded the Victoria Cross.
		The orginal Japanese cruiser Takao article can be editet
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Japanese-cruiser-Takao.html (506 words)

	Famous Frasers 3
		In July 1945, Ian E Fraser sank the Japanese cruiser, the Takao, whilst commanding a four-crew mini submarine, the Sigyn and was awarded the VC for his bravery.
		His mission was to sink the 10,000 ton cruiser, the Takao, a veritable fortress, being used as a shore battery, sitting in Singapore harbour.
		On his return home to receive his medal he visited the Takao in Singapore, only to come across a great irony, the ship had been torpedoed by a US submarine and taken out of service by the Japanese before his attack but no one in the Allies knew.
	www.fraserofwesthill.com /Famous_Frasers3.html (1903 words)

	British Submarines of World War Two - XE1 and XE3 at Singapore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		By the middle of 1945, the Japanese were retreating all across South East Asia, but they still held on to the vital naval base at Singapore.
		Amidships there was just sufficient depth for XE3 to force herself beneath the cruiser, but when she was under her keel there was not enough room for the special diving hatch to be fully opened.
		This was exceptionally tiring and Magennis had an extra handicap because of an escape of oxygen from his diving gear which ascended to the surface in a stream of bubbles.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /chalcraft/sm/XE3.html (836 words)

	Takao, Imperial Japanese Navy Heavy Cruiser : Skywave 1:700th Model
		The Takao Class Heavy Cruisers were the largest of the heavy cruisers built for the Japanese Navy.
		When TAKAO arrived in Singapore for repairs, it was discovered that the damage was much more extensive than could be repaired at the limited facilities in Singapore.
		On February 5, 1945, TAKAO fell victim to a British X-craft raid which blew a 21 foot hole in her side and caused extensive flooding.
	www.steelnavy.com /TakaoSkywave.htm (1365 words)

	FREE MARKET FAIRY TALES: On This Day ... in 1915 & Others
		After 11 hours bumping along the bottom in often dangerously shallow water, Fraser managed to position XE.3 directly below Takao, and his diver, Magennis, squeezed out of a hatch which could only be partly opened, blocked by the cruiser's hull, to attach limpet mines to her underside.
		Meanwhile, XE.1 could not find Myoko, so her crew decided also to attack Takao, even though there was now a risk that XE.3's charges might go off whilst they were underneath the cruiser.
		Takao was badly damaged by the explosions and never went to sea again.
	www.fmft.net /archives/001102.html (457 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log--Midget Submarines
		Unlike the later Japanese midgets, they did not carry Torpedoes, but in lieu, had two portable mines that were detachable, to later be set up under their target.
		At the Japanese Naval Base at Kure, a mass of these Submarines were huddled together, cheek by jowl, in a huge building area, probably as many as a hundred of them, waiting to be used in the final onslought against the Allied invasion of Japan.
		These Japanese Submarines were:- I 21, (with an aircraft) I 22 (carrying Midget No.21) I 24 (carrying Midget A. It was given this designation, as this craft was not recovered, and her number is thus not known) I 27 (carrying Midget No.14) and finally, I 29 (probably with a damaged aircraft on board.)
	www.ahoy.tk-jk.net /Underwater/26MidgetSubmarines.html (3044 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News - Submarine commander rises from the ranks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Takao had been damaged in action, but it was feared she could be repaired, and in any case she provided a formidable gun battery for defending the territory.
		XE-3 cruised though the night on the surface at around five knots, Fraser having memorised the route, but a sudden dive to avoid a tanker damaged equipment which helped Fraser’s dead-reckoning.
		Despite the fact that the Takao had been only manned by a skeleton crew, and was deemed unserviceable by the Japanese, both Fraser and Magennis were awarded the Victoria Cross; Smith received the DSO and Reid the CGM.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2005/0501/0005012801.asp (731 words)

	Heavy Cruisers of WWII (Part 2)
		But they were designed as special purpose scout cruisers for the fleet, and carried all 8-8in guns foreword in order to leave the quarter-deck free for handling float planes (the Japanese used float planes from their cruisers rather than carrier based planes as scouts).
		Germany had an excuse, though, as she was never a signatory to the Washington or London naval treaties (nobody asked her to be, she was supposedly limited by the Versailles treaty).
		The Japanese triple 6.1in mount had the same diameter turret ring as their 8in twin mount.
	www.chuckhawks.com /heavy_cruisers_part2.htm (3225 words)

	Naval and Maritime Books
		Brennecke, H. CRUISE OF THE RAIDER HK-33 Crowell 1954 Written by a German naval correspondent and survivors of the Pinguin this book tells the history of a German freighter converted to a merchant raider that tallied a score of 200,000 tons of Allied shipping before meeting her fate.
		Cruise Book - Editor Ken Hoffmann, dp2 U.S.S. AJAX (AR-6) West-Pac cruise Jan. 1973 - Aug. 1973 Miller 1973 The Ajax saw service in the Pacific during World War II and was built by the Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Drydock Corp. at San Pedro, California and commissioned on 10/30/43.
		Cruise Book - Editor LCDr Barry Benn U.S.S. OKINAWA LPH-3 Allen 1972 Apollo 15 was launched 7/26/71 and after completion of the moon mission the service module splashed down in the North Central Pacific Ocean 300 miles off of Hawaii where it was recovered by U.S.S. Okinawa (LPH-3).
	www.sonic.net /~books/navy.html (8472 words)

	[No title]
		I make no secret of the fact that I particularly like Japanese warships and among them heavy cruisers.
		heavy cruisers can be considered as the highest point reached by the Japanese naval industry on these kind of vessels.
		Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1869 - 1945
	www.steelnavy.com /PitroadMayaCM.htm (553 words)

	Cruisers - Books on Warships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Reports of a sea battle with a German cruiser whose survivors were rescued from rafts in the Sunda Straight added to the mystery that has continued to baffle government officials, historians, and the public for over fifty years.
		By examining every piece of available evidence and carefully reconstructing the event through eye-witness accounts, Olson has produced both a compelling narrative and the most persuasive explanation yet for the mystery and tragedy of the HMAS Sydney.
		Heavy Cruisers of the Admiral Hipper Class: The Admiral Hipper, Blucher, Prince Eugen, Seydlitz and Lutzow
	www.dropbears.com /b/broughsbooks/military/cruisers.htm (505 words)

	http://www.infomagic.net/~grog/Story6.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		We were making our final approach at full speed to get into position to fire our tubes at the Japanese Heavy Cruiser, Takao, that we had torpedoed and crippled earlier that morning.
		I believe Captain McClintock's plan was to get into the best firing position and to fire the forward tubes while on the surface of the water and then do an about face and leave the area immediately, leaving the Japanese Cruiser to sink.
		I thought for sure that a Japanese torpedo had hit us in the after part of the submarine.
	www.infomagic.net /~grog/Story6.htm (555 words)

	Victoria Cross, VC, RN, Wilkinson, HMS Li Wo, Thresher, Gould, Roberts, Miers, Torbay, Gray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The end is in no doubt and she goes down, but her sacrifice saves all but five of the merchant ships.
		with a single 4in gun attacks a troop convoy south of Singapore and is soon sunk by a Japanese cruiser.
		panese heavy cruiser "Takao", previously damaged by US submarines on passage to the Battle of Leyte Gulf, is now laying off Singapore in the Johore Straits.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsVCs.htm (2411 words)

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		In addition, F6F pilots are to receive additional training in the fighter-bomber role especially in the use of air-to-ground rockets 1944 - U-333 (Type VIIC) is sunk in the North Atlantic west of the Scilly Isles, at position 49.39N, 07.28W, by depth charges from the British sloop HMS Starling and the frigate Loch Killin.
		After 11 hours bumping along the bottom in often dangerously shallow water, Fraser managed to position XE.3 directly below Takao, and his diver, Magennis, squeezed out a hatch which could only be partly opened, blocked by the cruiser's hull, to attached limpet mines to the her.
		Meanwhile, XE.1 could not find Myoko, so her crew decided also to attack Takao, even though there was a risk that XE.3's charges might go off whilst they were underneath the cruiser.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/july/31Jul.txt (1373 words)

	Submarine, HMS, Vandal, Uredd, Sickle, Tigris, Turbulent, VC, Thunderbolt, Shakespeare, Storm
		attacks an escorted Japanese tanker and is badly damaged by depth charges in the counter-attack.
		anese heavy cruiser "Takao", previously damaged by US submarines on passage to the Battle of Leyte Gulf, is now laying off Singapore in the Johore Straits.
		On the night of the 30th/31st, midget submarines "XE-1" (Lt Smart) and "XE-3" (Lt Fraser) are released by towing submarines "Spark" and "Stygian" and manage to reach the cruiser to drop their charges.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsBritishSubs2.htm (2162 words)

	Ian Edward Fraser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He was 24 years old, and a Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
		On 31 July 1945 in the Johore Straits, Singapore, Lieutenant Fraser, in command of HM Midget Submarine XE.3, went to attack the Japanese cruiser Takao, which was located after a long and hazardous journey.
		Lieutenant Fraser slid the submarine under the target which lay over a depression in the sea bed, and his diver (James Joseph Magennis) went out to fix the limpet mines to the bottom of the ship.
	www.free-download-soft.com /info/pc-inventory.html (316 words)

	books
		Twentieth-century cruisers are the successors to the age-of-sail frigates, whose main task was to patrol ocean sea lanes and protect mercantile trade while serving as the eyes of the fleet.
		Based on official Japanese publications and unpublished documents, this book provides--for the first time--a complete history of these cruisers, including the 18 "heavy" and 25 "light" cruisers that saw combat, the two ships incorporated from the Chinese Navy, and others that either were never completed or never left the drawing board.
		The buildup of the cruiser force in the years prior to World War II is presented in the framework of the growing rivalry between Japan and the United States in the Pacific, and the resulting changes in the successive Japanese defense policies between 1907 and 1936.
	floatingdrydock.com /books.html (12840 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Heavy Cruiser Takao (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This effort on the cruiser Takao is probably his best effort, with more information than the Yamato book (of course, the Yamato was sunk and information on her is sparse-Takao survived the war, albeit in a damaged state) and none of the editing flaws which marred his latest book on the Fuso.
		The drawings are worth the price of the book and contain enough information for the modeler to scratchbuild or improve the only Takao model on the market, which is a pretty bad one.
		This book has everthing; from profiles of the ship as it appeared in its career, down to the rivet patterns used to assemble the hull, all in scaled drawings.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1557503540 (342 words)

	NewsPro Archive
		In Singapore harbour the British midget submarine XE-1 attaches mines to the hull of the Japanese heavy cruiser Takao.
		The Japanese strongpoint at Mumbo, 10 miles (16 km) inland from Salamaua, is seized by the Australians.
		US and Australian forces are battling to dislodge the Japanese from the high ground they have retreated to.
	www.combatmission.com /newspro/arc6-2002.html (2415 words)

	Cruiser Takao Randall Wilson
		Japanese cruiser Takao in naval art print by naval artist Randall Wilson.
		Takao escorts the Japanese carrier during the Second World War.
		The Japanese ship Takao at Flank speed, riding shotgun for the carrier
	www.military-art.com /dhm715.htm (532 words)

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