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Ships of World War Two

Battleships, Aircraft Carriers, Cruisers, Destroyers, etc.

Using the pictures from the 1943-45 Naval Recognition Manual as a base, I plan to cover the five major powers of the war: United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, and Italy. As the manual was designed specifically for recognition, it includes classes of warships, not individual ships. Thus, all the ships presented here are lead ships of their class.

Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN)

This is not an online history of all Japanese Naval Operations in World War Two, merely a summary and some images of ships.

Battleships

Kongo

Fuso

Ise

Nagato

and scans from my father's 1943 Naval Recognition Manual

Continue the discussion at the Ships Forum or email me (photos of WW2 ships welcome).