The remaining at large exception, name-ship of the class battleship Kongo is unfortunately likely to have also ended up inverted, for that is how she left the surface. In contrast to carriers, cruisers, and destroyers, Japanese battleships show little propensity to right themselves on the ...
The major innovation in American design would be the next class, the Midways (CVBs, "battle" carriers). These would be substantially larger (45,000 vs. 27,100 tons) than any version of the Essex Class; and they would have an armored flight deck. The armored deck was nothing new in car...
500 men, heavy weapons and supplies of LtGen Sano Tadayoshi's 38th "Hiroshima" Infantry Division and the Sasebo No. 8 Special Naval Landing Force on Guadalcanal. Rear Admiral (later Vice Admiral) Tanaka Raizo's (former CO of KONGO) DesRon 2’s twelve destroyers will escort an 11-ship...
Hatsushimo on 13 December 1944, shortly before Hatsushimo's and Myoko's destruction, would finish off the destroyer Kasumi with a "down the throat" shot and the battleship Ise (making it 1 out of 2 Japanese battleship losses to US Submarines, the other being ...
1930's Soviet battleship plans, the genesis of the Japanese Yokosuka shipyards and a photo gallery of the scrapping of the Agincourt, New Zealand and Pr... P Wykeham-Martin - 《Warship World》 被引量: 0发表: 2022年 The Pacific War Papers Kongo: Mt. Kongo in Wakayama Prefecture, being ...
Nao Touyama [Edit: Got the name wrong. Thanks for pointing that out, guys] voices several characters within the anime, but most notable are the Kongo sisters, Kongo, Hiei, Haruna, and Kirishima. In the following clip, the sisters all introduce themselves. Each sister has a very distinct pe...
Haruna, named after Mount Haruna, was a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I and World War II. She was the fourth and last ship of her class, and was designed by the British naval engineer George Thurston. Laid down as a battlecruiser in 1912 at Kôbe, Haruna ...