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A Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned-back by an Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged.
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* 1868 – Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese naval commander ( d. 1918 )
* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.
* 1884 – Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese naval marshal general ( d. 1943 )
It had a population of four American civilians, who were all evacuated in 1942 after Japanese air and naval attacks.
alt = A film of a re-enactment of a naval battle, depicting Russians firing at a Japanese ship with a cannon
* 1943 – Imperial Japanese naval forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
In February 1944, Operation Hailstone, one of the most important naval battles of the war, took place at Truk, in which many Japanese support vessels and aircraft were destroyed.
After the September 11 attacks, Japanese naval vessels have been assigned to resupply duties in the Indian Ocean to the present date.
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The atoll was briefly shelled by Japanese naval units shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
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After naval studies in England between 1871 and 1878, Togo's role as Chief Admiral of the Grand Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Russo-Japanese War made him a legend in Japanese military history, and earned him the nickname ' Nelson of the Orient ' in Britain.
* 1942 – World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
* 1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands.
* 1918 – Kazuo Sakamaki, Japanese naval officer ( d. 1999 )
* 1942 – World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal – U. S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
* 1600 – Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander ( b. 1542 )
* 1944 – Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U. S. Third and U. S. Seventh Fleets.
alt = A film of a re-enactment of a naval battle, depicting Russians firing at a Japanese ship with a cannon In addition, many prints may suffer from cehynyrnhnsorship cuts, resulting in what appears to be poor editing.
However, in reference to naval nomenclature, it is technically inaccurate, as 戦艦 senkan means " battleship " and not " cruiser " ( which in Japanese would be 巡洋艦 jun ' yōkan ).
Japanese and transport
PT boats also operated as gunboats against enemy small craft, such as armored barges used by the Japanese forces for inter-island transport.
The Company is a contractor for the Japanese Ministry of Defense and has built aircraft such as the C-1 transport aircraft, T-4 intermediate jet trainer, and the P-3C antisubmarine warfare patrol airplane.
Kawasaki has also participated in projects such as the development of reusable launch vehicles for spacecraft that will handle future space transport, space robotics projects such as the Japanese Experiment Module for the International Space Station, the HOPE-X experimental orbiting plane and the docking mechanism for the ETS-VII.
During the landing operations on August 7 and August 8, Japanese naval aircraft based at Rabaul, under the command of Sadayoshi Yamada, attacked the Allied amphibious forces several times, setting afire the transport USS George F. Elliot ( which sank two days later ) and heavily damaging the destroyer.
They attacked a Japanese minesweeper and a transport, thought to be a destroyer, with meager results, and 9 naval aircraft based on the Legaspi strip.
The two Allied cruisers were sunk but a Japanese minesweeper and a transport vessel were sunk by friendly fire.
He and other pilots in the transport section flew C-46 and C-47 transport planes, often without escort, mostly in support of Chinese units fighting the Japanese.
According to Sony's own history webpages, the name came from a double meaning: beta being the Japanese word used to describe the way signals were recorded onto the tape, and from the fact that when the tape ran through the transport, it looked like the Greek letter beta ( β ).
One reason Admiral Yi was successful in his battles was because his cannon had longer range and power than the enemy's, with the Japanese heavily favoring troop transport over naval combat.
Also, Japanese reinforcements intended for Guadalcanal were delayed and eventually delivered by warships rather than transport ships, giving the Allies more time to prepare for the Japanese counteroffensive and preventing the Japanese from landing heavy artillery, ammunition, and other supplies.
A convoy containing 1, 411 Japanese soldiers from the 28th " Ichiki " Infantry Regiment as well as several hundred naval troops from the 5th Yokosuka Special Naval Landing Force, loaded on three slow transport ships, departed the major Japanese base at Truk Lagoon ( Chuuk ) on 16 August and headed towards Guadalcanal.
On 8 April 1942 an Imperial Japanese force consisting of the light cruiser Tatsuta, destroyer Mutsuki and a troop transport ship Mishima Maru entered Lorengau harbour, and several hundreds of Japanese soldiers of the 8th Special Base Force, swarmed ashore onto Australia's mandated responsibility.
Learning their lessons in logistics and transport from the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese army hired some 10, 000 local laborers at wages well above the local norms, and paid also for any food and supplies procured locally.
The line developed into the backbone of transport in Korea under Japanese rule.
The city also hosts a full-size replica of the Japanese warship San Juan Bautista, a ship commissioned in 1613 by Date Masamune, Daimyo of Sendai, to transport an embassy to the Pope in Rome.
As with many Japanese cities, cycling is a very common form of transport, particularly among school students.
In addition to approaching Guadalcanal with the objective of engaging any Japanese ships that might come into range, the U. S. task force was protecting an Allied transport ship convoy carrying replacement troops there.
is a Japanese transport company headquartered in Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
Japanese and convoy
* 1943 – World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea – United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
* August 18 – WWII: Submarine Rasher sinks Teia Maru, Eishin Maru, Teiyu Maru, and carrier from Japanese convoy HI71 in one of the most effective American " wolfpack " attacks of the war.
* March 2 – WWII: Battle of the Bismarck Sea – United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
* August 6 – WWII – Battle of Vella Gulf: Americans defeat a Japanese convoy off Kolombangara, as the U. S. Army drives the Japanese out of Munda airfield on New Georgia.
That night the detachment conducted a successful attack on Japanese aircraft at Nielson Field, then shot up a truck convoy on the north shore of Manila Bay.
* 1 – 2 February 1942, a night attack by four P-40s flying two sorties each bombed and strafed a 13-barge convoy attempting to delivery 700 reinforcements to the Japanese beachheads, destroying nine and killing approximately half the troops aboard, confirmed later by Japanese records.
The Beiyang fleet had completed escorting a convoy to the mouth of the Yalu River, and was returning to its base at Lushunkou ( Port Arthur ) when it was engaged by the Japanese navy.
By late afternoon, with no further sightings of Japanese ships, two aircraft strike forces from Saratoga and Henderson Field took off to attack Tanaka's convoy.
The mission may also have been intended by Nagumo as a decoy to divert U. S. attention so that the rest of the Japanese force could approach the U. S. naval forces undetected as well as to help provide protection and cover for Tanaka's convoy.
An uninjured but shaken Tanaka transferred to the destroyer, sent Jintsu back to Truk, and took the convoy to the Japanese base in the Shortland Islands.
Luckily for Tunku, all vehicles in the convoy had been directed to space out at two-minute intervals to avoid attracting the attention of Japanese war planes, armed with machine guns, which were patrolling the sky over North Kedah.
On 29 January 1943, Halsey sent five task forces toward the southern Solomons area to cover the relief convoy and to engage any Japanese naval forces that came into range.
In early November 1942, the Japanese organized a transport convoy to take 7, 000 infantry troops and their equipment to Guadalcanal to attempt once again to retake the airfield.
Several Japanese warship forces were assigned to bombard Henderson Field with the goal of destroying Allied aircraft that posed a threat to the convoy.
In addition to delivering the troops and their equipment by Tokyo Express runs, the Japanese also successfully pushed through one large convoy of slower transport ships.
*, a Grimsby class sloop commissioned in 1936 and was lost on 4 March 1942 while defending a convoy from five Japanese warships
On 23 January 1942, a force of four American destroyers attacked a Japanese invasion convoy in Makassar Strait as it approached Balikpapan in Borneo.
On 14 September, Wasp was hit by three torpedoes fired by Japanese submarine while supporting a major reinforcement and resupply convoy to Guadalcanal and almost engaging two Japanese carriers and ( who withdrew just before the two adversaries came into range of each other's aircraft ).
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