Ships of World War Two
Battleships, Aircraft Carriers, Cruisers,
Destroyers, etc.
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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
Aircraft Carriers
Shokaku
Hosho
Zuiho
Mizuho
Chitose
Cruisers
Nachi
Atago
Mogami
Aoba
Chokai
Tone
Sendai
Kuma
Natori
Tenryu
Katori
Yubari
Destroyers
Mutsuki
Minekaze
Wakatake
Amagiri
Shigure
Asashio
Terutsuki
Hibiki
Shinonome
Hatsuharu
Chidori
Sources: Public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
and scans from my father's 1943 Naval Recognition Manual
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