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Parent topics
- Imperial Japanese Navy [r]: The part of the Japanese military responsible for naval warfare, 1868-1945 [e]
- Battleship [r]: A heavily-armored, warship optimized for fighting other warships using large-caliber guns; certain armor requirements differentiated from cruisers; obsolete by end of World War II. [e]
Subtopics
- IJN Yamato [r]: Lead ship of the class of the biggest battleships ever built; sunk by U.S. carrier aircraft in 1945, while on a "do-or-die" tokko mission to reinforce Japanese forces at the Battle of Okinawa [e]
- IJN Musashi [r]: Battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, of the Yamato-class, sunk by U.S. aircraft during the Battle of Leyte Gulf; one of the two largest battleships ever built [e]
- IJN Shinano [r]: Imperial Japanese Navy vessel, laid down as a battleship of the Yamato-class but converted to an aircraft carrier; sunk on 29 November 1944 by the submarine USS Archerfish (SS-311) while still being finished and transferring to a safer shipyard [e]
- Battle of Leyte Gulf [r]: The largest naval battle in history, fought in October 1944 as Japan tried to interfere with U.S. amphibious landings in the Philippines [e]
- Battle of Okinawa [r]: The longest, bloodiest U.S. World War II battle in which the Japanese island of Okinawa was captured in the spring of 1945. [e]
- Tokko [r]: In the Second World War, a doctrine of "special attack" involving suicide attack; it included kamikaze aircraft, but also manned torpedoes (kaiten), explosive-laden speedboats, soldiers with explosives on their bodies or on poles, etc. [e]
- USS Archerfish (SS-311) [r]: Balao-class submarine of the United States Navy, built in 1943 and served through WWII, sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier IJN Shinano; served again between 1952-1955; as a research auxiliary; sunk as a target in 1960 [e]