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Pages in category "Imperial Japanese Navy personnel killed in World War II" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
At the beginning of the Pacific War, the strategy of the Imperial Japanese Navy was underpinned by several key assumptions.The most fundamental was that just as the Russo-Japanese War had been decided by a single naval battle at Tsushima (May 27–28, 1905), the war against the United States would also be decided by a single, decisive battle at sea, or Kantai Kessen. [14]
Japanese naval infantry operating a Type 93 13 mm anti-aircraft machine gun. The Imperial Japanese Navy land forces were a variety of land-based units of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) organized for offensive operations, the defense of Japanese naval and shore-based facilities, military policing tasks, construction and engineering, training, and shore-based anti-aircraft roles; both overseas ...
Japanese Army and Navy personnel killed by enemy action during the Second World War, (1937-1945) Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Emperor Hirohito: Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy (Article XI of the Meiji Constitution of 1889). He also led the Imperial Supreme War Council conferences and meetings, in some cases a member of the Imperial Family was sent to represent him at such strategic conferences.
Saipan was the first island during the Pacific War where the United States forces encountered a substantial Japanese civilian population, [55] and the first where U. S. Marines fought around urban areas. [56] Approximately 26,000 [6] to 28,000 [7] civilians lived on the island, primarily serving the sugar industry. [39]
The following is a list of Japanese military equipment of World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels, and other support equipment of both the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), and Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) from operations conducted from start of Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the end of World War II in 1945. [1]
Australian land forces defeated Japanese Marines in New Guinea at the Battle of Milne Bay in September 1942, which was the first land defeat suffered by the Japanese in the Pacific. Further victories by the Allies at Guadalcanal in September 1942, and New Guinea in 1943 put the Empire of Japan on the defensive for the remainder of the war, with ...