Japanese Forces 1. Battle Fleet (Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto) Battleships Yamato (flagship), Negato, Mutsu Light aircraft-carrier Hosho Light cruiser Sendai and 9 destroyers Seaplane-carriers Chivoda and Nisshin (transporting midget-submarines) Covering force ...
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Services Reconnaissance Department Memorial
Perhaps the least known of service memorials in Australia is that to the Services Reconnaissance Department which is located on Garden Island, Western Australia. It is appropriate the memorial has ...
Rear Admiral Farncomb
BETWEEN MAY 4 AND MAY 8 1942 the battle of the Coral Sea took place. The Coral Sea Battle was just one of the many highlights of the Naval career ...
The Fighting Tribals
DURING THE 1930S the Tribals were designed to lend heavier gun support to existing flotillas and were influenced by similar contemporary German (Type 1934), Japanese (Asashio Class) and the American ...