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This List of Japanese Naval ships and war vessels in World War II is a list of seafaring vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy of World War II.It includes submarines, battleships, oilers, minelayers and other types of Japanese sea vessels of war and naval ships used during wartime.
Military History of Japan during World War II; The following is the list of ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy for the duration of its existence, 1868–1945. [1]
Submarines. 195. 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 the first six months of the war, the IJN enjoyed spectacular success inflicting heavy ...
Japanese target ship Hakachi. Japanese fleet oiler Hario. Japanese gunboat Hashidate. Hashima-class cable layer. Japanese fleet oiler Hayasui. Japanese transport ship Hayataka Maru. Heian Maru (1930) Hiburi-class escort ship. Japanese torpedo boat Hiyodori.
These ships of the Allied navies of World War II were present in Tokyo Bay on Victory over Japan Day (2 September 1945) when the Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed on board the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63).
Fusō class. Fusō on trials in 1933 after her modernization. The Fusō -class battleships (扶桑型戦艦, Fusō-gata senkan), Fusō and Yamashiro, were a pair of dreadnoughts built for the IJN during World War I. [119] Both patrolled briefly off the coast of China before being placed in reserve at the war's end.
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.
The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945. For smaller vessels, see also list of World War II ships of less than 1000 tons.