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Design B-65 was a class of cruisers planned by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) before and during World War II.The IJN referred to this design as a 'Super Type A' cruiser; It was larger than most heavy cruisers but smaller than most battlecruisers, and as such, has been variously described as a 'super-heavy cruiser,' a 'super cruiser,' or as a 'cruiser-killer.'
Before the Second World War, a further class of two battlecruisers were planned (Design B-65), but more pressing naval priorities and a faltering war effort ensured these ships never reached the construction phase. [7] Of the eight battlecruiser hulls laid down by Japan (the four KongÅ and four Amagi class), none survived the Second World War.
On 5 February a new command, the Tenth Area Fleet (Vice-Admiral Shigeru Fukudome), with the 13th Air Fleet, was separated from the South-West Area Fleet.The main force of the Tenth Area Fleet was the Second Diversionary Attack Force with the 4th Carrier Squadron, comprising the battleship carriers Ise and Hyuga and the 5th Cruiser Squadron with the heavy cruisers Ashigara and Haguro.
The following is the list of ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy for the duration of its existence, 1868–1945. [1] This list also includes ships before the official founding of the Navy and some auxiliary ships used by the Army.
On 28 July, the USAAF attacked Kure ships with 79 B-24 Liberator bombers from Okinawa. Four bomb hits were made upon the beached cruiser Aoba, breaking off her stern. Two B-24s were shot down and 14 others damaged. [9] Allied losses included 102 aircrew and 133 planes lost in combat or accidents during the attacks.
USS Juneau, US light cruiser crippled by a torpedo from Amatsukaze, and finished off the next day by submarine I-26 as Juneau limped back to base. Battle of Guadalcanal, 13 November 1942. USS Selfridge, US destroyer crippled and put out of action for six months by torpedoes fired by destroyers Shigure and Samidare under Hara's command.
At the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay on 2 November, she engaged an American cruiser-destroyer formation, but without damage. After making a final troop transport mission to Buka on 6 November, she escorted a convoy from Rabaul to Truk, rescuing 70 survivors of the transport Tokyo Maru en route on 10 November.
On the 25 of October 1944, she served in the Battle off Samar where she possibly sank the escort carrier USS Gambier Bay (though most modern sources attribute the carrier's sinking to Battleship Yamato) and damaged the destroyer USS Heermann, before being crippled by gunfire from the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts and sunk by air attacks.