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Hiyō sunk and Jun'yō scrapped 1946–1947. Zuihō -class. Light aircraft carrier. Zuihō (1940–1944) Shōhō (1939–1942) 11,443 tonnes. Both sunk during WWII. Chitose -class. Light aircraft carrier.
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 ...
The Yamato-class battleships (大和型戦艦, Yamato-gata senkan) were two battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Yamato and Musashi, laid down leading up to World War II and completed as designed. A third hull, laid down in 1940, was converted to an aircraft carrier, Shinano, during construction. Displacing nearly 72,000 long tons (73,000 ...
Musashi (Japanese: 武蔵, named after the former Japanese province [2]) was one of four planned Yamato -class battleships [N 1] built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), beginning in the late 1930s. The Yamato -class ships were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, [4] displacing almost 72,000 long tons (73,000 ...
47. Shinano (Japanese: 信濃, named after the ancient Shinano Province) was an aircraft carrier built by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II, the largest such built up to that time. Laid down in May 1940 as the third of the Yamato -class battleships, Shinano ' s partially complete hull was ordered to be converted to an ...
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).
Pages in category "World War II battleships of Japan". The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . Ise-class battleship. Kongō-class battlecruiser.
Japanese battleship. Yamato. Yamato (Japanese: 大和, named after the ancient Yamato Province) was the lead ship of her class of battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) shortly before World War II. She and her sister ship, Musashi, were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, displacing nearly 72,000 ...