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High School Fleet (ハイスクール・フリート, Haisukūru Furīto), also known as Haifuri (はいふり), is a Japanese anime television series produced by Production IMS. Yuu Nobuta directed the anime and Reiko Yoshida handled the series composition, with character designs by Naoto Nakamura and original character designs by Atto.
Commissioned in mid-1942, Musashi was modified to serve as the flagship of the Combined Fleet, and spent the rest of the year working up. The ship was transferred to Truk , Japan's main wartime naval base in the South Pacific theatre , in early 1943 and sortied several times that year with the fleet in unsuccessful searches for American forces.
(High Seas Waves) Aug 1942 Dec 1943 Air attack Manila Bay, Nov 1944 Ōnami (Big Rough Waves) Nov 1941 Dec 1942 Battle of Cape St. George, Nov 1943 ‡ Suzunami (Breaking Waves) Mar 1942 Jul 1943 Air attack Rabaul, Nov 1943 Takanami (Tall Wave) May 1941 Aug 1942 Battle of Tassafaronga, Nov 1942 Tamanami (Jade Wave) Mar 1942 Apr 1943
Between the 1890s and 1940s, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) built a series of battleships as it expanded its fleet. Previously, the Empire of Japan had acquired a few ironclad warships from foreign builders, although it had adopted the Jeune École naval doctrine which emphasized cheap torpedo boats and commerce raiding to offset expensive, heavily armored ships.
Kaoru Arima (有馬 馨, Arima Kaoru, 15 December 1893 – 23 January 1956) was an admiral and commander in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II.Early in the war with the United States, Arima commanded the battleship Musashi, one of the largest battleships ever built.
The IJN was the third largest navy in the world by 1920, behind the Royal Navy and the United States Navy (USN). [2] It was supported by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service for aircraft and airstrike operations from the fleet. It was the primary opponent of the Western Allies in the Pacific War.
Isoroku Yamamoto (山本 五十六, Yamamoto Isoroku, April 4, 1884 – April 18, 1943) was a Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II.
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]