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A drawing of Hiei, November 1942. On 27 May 1942, Hiei sortied with Kongō and the heavy cruisers Atago, Chōkai, Myōkō, and Haguro as part of Admiral Nobutake Kondō's Invasion Force during the Battle of Midway. [5] [19] Following the disastrous loss of four of the Combined Fleet's fast carriers on 4 June, Kondō's force withdrew to Japan. [24]
The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, sometimes referred to as the Third and Fourth Battles of Savo Island, the Battle of the Solomons, The Battle of Friday the 13th, The Night of the Big Guns, or, in Japanese sources, the Third Battle of the Solomon Sea (第三次ソロモン海戦, Dai-san-ji Soromon Kaisen), took place from 12 to 15 November 1942 and was the decisive engagement in a series of ...
Concurrently with the Army's offensive on Guadalcanal, the IJN planned their largest naval operation to date in order to counter and defeat any American naval forces operating in support of the Marines on Guadalcanal. [48] The Combined Fleet departed Truk on October 11 with a force of four battleships, four carriers, nine cruisers, and 25 ...
Guadalcanal, much larger than the other two islands and located to the south across the soon-to-be-named Ironbottom Sound, was added when it was discovered the Japanese were constructing an airbase there. [18] The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) had occupied Tulagi in May 1942 and had constructed a
All four participated in the Battles of Midway and Guadalcanal. Hiei and Kirishima were both sunk during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in November 1942, while Haruna and Kongō jointly bombarded Henderson Field on Guadalcanal. The two remaining sisters spent most of 1943 shuttling between Japanese naval bases before participating in the major ...
All four participated in the battles of Midway and Guadalcanal. Hiei and Kirishima were both lost during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in November 1942, while Haruna and Kongō jointly bombarded the American Henderson Field airbase on Guadalcanal. The two remaining Kongō-class battleships spent most of 1943 shuttling between Japanese naval ...
Sunk at Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, Nov 1942 Kirishima: Mar 1912 Apr 1915 Sunk at Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, Nov 1942 Fusō class: 34,700 tons 12 × 14-in. 16 × 6-in. 1,376 25 kn Fusō: Mar 1912 Nov 1915 Sunk at Battle of Surigao Strait Oct 1944 Yamashiro: Nov 1913 Mar 1917 Sunk at Battle of Surigao Strait Oct 1944 Ise class ‡ 42,001 tons
In the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on the night of 12–13 November 1942 she was part of the distant screening force and saw no combat, but later rescued survivors of the battleship Hiei. At the end of the year, she escorted the aircraft carrier Chūyō from Truk to Yokosuka and back to Truk.