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Navy Dream or Nightmare? Merge Battleship and Aircraft Carriers
In the late 1930s, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) built a pair of heavy cruisers, Tone and Chikuma, with the main armament ...
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The Submarine that Got Blasted Point Blank by the Ship It Just Sunk
In December 1944, the heavily damaged IJN Myōkō struggled to return to Japan after being crippled at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, escorted by the destroyer Ushio. As they navigated the Pacific on the ...