1934: TOGO FUNERAL: HA WS Naval warship in harbor, part of public state funeral naval ship procession for Fleet Admiral Heihachiro Togo (1848-1934), Imperial Japanese Navy sailors standing along edge of ship. PHOTOS: Fleet Admiral Togo in uniform. ...
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Officer Equipment Officers could, of course, dress very differently from anyone else and there seems to be set pattern to the styles. They did have very fine dyed cloaks of various colors to signify rank. They generally wore a muscled cuirass and used a parazonium instead of a gladius; bot...
(SakusenA) using Japanese Navy land based bombers and fighters to attack Allied targets in the Solomon Islands and New Guinea. During I-Go, Admiral Yamamoto was photographed atLakunai Airfieldwith this staff and waving or saluting to air crews wearing a Type 1 summer uniform His presence ...
British boarding-party attempted to force their way below decks to halt the scuttle. A scuffle broke out in which Schumann was shot through the head and died immediately, and another officer was seriously wounded. But enough had been done to ensure Markgraf went to the bottom at 4:45 p.m...
Japanese flak claims five more planes. 28 March 1945:Tokuyama Navy Fuel Depot, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Tanker MITSUSHIMA MARU arrives from Singapore. YAMATO takes on about 1,000-tons of fuel oil from her. MITSUSHIMA MARU unloads 9279-tons of crude oil at the depot. At 1730, that same day, ...
Suspected war criminals were detained at Sugamo Prison until the end of 1948. Sixty Japanese men were sentenced to death, all of whom were executed behind the iron door of the gallows cell No. 13.1 An urban myth portends that the number 60 in the building’s name alludes to this very ...
A recent Japanese theory (not supported by naval experts) suggests that the explosion was triggered by the detonation of unexploded depth charges on the seabed that were dropped during a naval exercise by the destroyer USHIO. Another theory put forward by Tashiro Gunjuro, a secondary battery gunn...