• The 3rd Kure Special Naval Landing Force (3rd Kure SNLF) were two infantry battalions of the Imperial Japanese Navy's Special Naval Landing Forces. Both...
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    3rd Special Base Force) at the Battle of Tarawa accounted for over 3,000 U.S. Marine Corps casualties. Kure Naval Base 1st Kure SNLF-At Hainan Naval District...
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    the southern Solomons. These troops—mainly members of the 3rd Kure Special Naval Landing Force—occupied Tulagi on 3 May and constructed a seaplane, ship...
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    Island. About 400 Japanese naval troops—mainly from the 3rd Kure Special Naval Landing Force—disembarked from the transport ship on barges and immediately...
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    Battle of the Coral Sea (category Naval battles of World War II involving Japan)
    about 500 troops from the 3rd Kure Special Naval Landing Force (SNLF). Escorting the transports was the Port Moresby Attack Force with one light cruiser...
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    needed] Shanghai Special Naval Landing Force or 上海海軍特別陸戦隊 Shanghai-kaigun-tokubetsu-rikusen-tai: the sole permanent Special Naval Landing Force, established...
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    and 1 transport (Azumasan Maru) carrying 400 men of the 3rd Kure Special Naval Landing Force. The light carrier Shōhō provided air support accompanied...
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    Landing Ship Squadron 1 (Kure): LST-4001 Ōsumi; LST-4002 Shimokita; LST-4003 Kunisaki 1st Landing Craft Air Cushion Unit (Kure): LCAC-2101 - 2106 Mine...
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    122 naval infantry in the 3rd Special Base Force (a reorganized of the 6th Yokosuka SNLF), 1,497 sailors forming the 7th Sasebo Special Naval Landing Force...
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    Japanese battleship Yamato (category Ships built by Kure Naval Arsenal)
    spent the rest of the year moving between the major Japanese naval bases of Truk and Kure in response to American threats. In December 1943, Yamato was...
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  • the Enclave before the landings. Other tasks included VIP protection and other special forces tasks as required by the task force commander. 3 Squadron...
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    the Sasebo Combined Special Naval Landing Force. All these are on Celebes island. The 1st Kure Special Naval Landing Force and 228th Infantry Regiment...
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    Japanese battleship Haruna (category Bombing of Kure)
    latter. In 1945, Haruna was transferred to Kure Naval Base, where she was sunk by aircraft of Task Force 38 on 28 July 1945. Haruna was the fourth and...
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    1 transport: Azumasan Maru Embarking 400 troops from the 3rd Kure Special Naval Landing Force (SNLF) plus a construction detachment from the 7th Establishment...
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    Shanghai Special Naval Landing Force, and as a trainer in the Kure Naval Corps prior to the Pacific War. He specialized in Naval Gunnery and graduated...
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    and 1 transport (Azumasan Maru) carrying 400 men of the 3rd Kure Special Naval Landing Force. The light carrier Shōhō provided air support accompanied...
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    RAAF Tanambogo (category Australian naval aviation)
    base until shortly before it was occupied by the Japanese 3rd Kure Special Naval Landing Force in May 1942. Tanambogo was later utilised by the Yokohama...
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    and was therefore unlikely to have joined the battle. Shanghai Special Naval Landing Force: Rear Admiral Okochi Denshichi Shanghai SNLF 10th Battalion:...
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  • Shanghai Special Naval Landing Force - Rear Admiral Denshichi Okawachi 1st Battalion 2nd Battalion 3rd Battalion 4th Battalion 9th Battalion Special Naval Landing...
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    temporary repairs, Musashi sailed for Japan later that night and arrived at Kure Naval Arsenal on 3 April. From 10 to 22 April, she was repaired, while her anti-aircraft...
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    Bands participated as well as special guest bands from the United States Army, Japan, the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force, the Australian Army, and the...
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    Meanwhile, the separate, hastily raised 2,000-man Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF), landed near Rabaul in German New Guinea on 11...
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    special attack units, see Kure 101st JSNLF(in Japanese) ) for infiltrating enemy areas by submarine. It was called the Japanese Special Naval Landing...
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    Japanese cruiser Kitakami (category Ships built by Sasebo Naval Arsenal)
    After conversion, Kitakami and Ōi embarked the No. 4 Maizuiru Special Naval Landing Force, which they transported to Truk in the Caroline Islands and Shortland...
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    Japanese cruiser Ōyodo (category Ships built by Kure Naval Arsenal)
    ship was named after the Ōyodo River in Kyūshū. Ōyodo was laid down at Kure Naval Arsenal on 14 February 1941, launched on 2 April 1942 and completed on...
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    installations around the Kure naval base. Another fueling retirement came on 26 July, and on 27–28 July, her planes were in the air above Kure again. On 29–30...
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  • 1942 Yano led a landing party of 769 naval troops, from the Kure 3d Special Naval Landing Force and Yokosuka 5th Special Naval Landing Force, to support an...
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  • Sasebo 7th Special Naval Landing Force Sokichi Takagi: chief of staff of the Maizuru Naval Base Kiyohide Shima: chief of Staff of the Maizuru Naval District...
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    consisted of between 120 and 290 troops from two companies of the Kure 6th Special Naval Landing Forces and the 229th Infantry Regiment. These two companies...
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  • Commanders of the 3rd Fleet Commander in chief 1st China Expeditionary Fleet and commander (Yangtze River Area Base Force) Chief of staff (3rd Fleet and 1st...
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