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Sep 2, 2020 · Following strikes by Task Force 38 carrier aircraft in the Tokyo area on 10 July 1945, photo-reconnaissance analysis revealed Japanese battleship NAGATO deep in a cove at Yokosuka. NAGATO was the flagship of the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Geography. Nirasaki is located in the northwestern end of the Kofu Basin in Yamanashi Prefecture, bordered to the east by the Minami Alps National Park and the west by the Minami Alps Koma Prefectural Natural Park.
Sep 16, 2020 · Surrendered destroyers, submarines, and other ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy moored at Kure after the end of World War II, circa October 1945. Ships include destroyers, Hanatsuki,...
The allied naval bombardments of Japan took place during the last weeks of the Pacific War in 1945, in which warships of the United States Navy, the Royal Navy and the Royal New Zealand Navy bombarded industrial and military facilities in Japan.
During World War II, at the beginning of the Pacific War in December 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was the third most powerful navy in the world, [3] and the naval air service was one of the most potent air forces in the world.
During World War I, while Britain was tied down fighting Germany, the alliance obligated Japan to guard British interests in China. Taking advantage of the pact during the opening months of the Great War, Japan—initially not directly involved in the fighting in Europe—declared war on Germany.
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In December 1941, Japan attacked British territories in Hong Kong, Malaya (now Malaysia), Singapore and Burma (now also known as Myanmar). These objects, photographs and artwork from IWM’s collections tell stories from Britain’s bitter and brutal war against Japan.
