Jintsū (神通) was the second vessel completed in the three-ship Sendai-class light cruiser in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), named after the Jinzū River...
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vessel completed of the four-member Myōkō class of heavy cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), which were active in World War II. The other ships...
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been named Jintsū (神通): Japanese cruiser Jintsū, a Sendai-class light cruiser in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II JDS Jintsū (DE-230), an...
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of her class of light cruiser in the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was named after the Nagara River in the Chūbu region of Japan. Nagara, as with the other...
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Battle of the Java Sea on 27 February 1942. At 1547, the Japanese cruisers Haguro, Nachi and Jintsū with destroyers Inazuma, Yukikaze, Tokitsukaze, Amatsukaze...
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a list of cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy built between 1885 and 1945. Note that the four Tsukuba and Ibuki class armoured cruisers were re-classed...
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Takeo Kurita's Second Fleet as the flagship of DesRon 2, replacing the cruiser Jintsū, which had been sunk a month earlier at the Battle of Kolombangara On...
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Kuma-class cruisers, an additional three 5,500-ton class light cruisers authorized under the 8-4 Fleet Program were ordered by the Imperial Japanese Navy in...
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Raizō Tanaka (category Biography articles needing translation from Japanese Wikipedia)
by the Marine aviators and Jintsū was bombed and heavily damaged, with Tanaka being wounded. Due to the damage to Jintsū, Tanaka shifted his flag to...
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Sendai-class light cruisers (川内型軽巡洋艦, Sendai-gata keijun'yōkan) were a class of three warships operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. The vessels in...
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Chiyoda (千代田) was a cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which served in the First Sino-Japanese War, Russo-Japanese War and World War I. Chiyoda was...
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Linton Wells (1997). Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-311-3. Nishida, Hiroshi. "Imperial Japanese Navy". Archived...
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This List of Japanese Naval ships and war vessels in World War II is a list of seafaring vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy of World War II. It includes...
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Battle of Kolombangara (category Naval battles of World War II involving Japan)
corrections to their fall of shot, the Japanese cruiser was heavily damaged. After losing steerage around 01:17, Jintsū came to a dead stop, was reduced to...
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July 1943. In that engagement, the destroyer USS Gwin and the Japanese cruiser Jintsū were sunk. 8°02′06″S 157°16′01″E / 8.035°S 157.267°E / -8.035;...
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The heavy cruiser was designed for long range, high speed, and heavy calibre naval guns. The first heavy cruisers were built in 1915, although it only...
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USS St. Louis (CL-49) (redirect from Brazilian cruiser Tamandaré (C12))
Allies encountered the Japanese force commanded by Rear Admiral Shunji Isaki, which was composed of the light cruiser Jintsu and five destroyers, escorting...
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HMNZS Leander (category Leander-class cruisers (1931) of the Royal Navy)
At 01:00 the Allied ships established radar contact with the Japanese cruiser Jintsu, which was accompanied by five destroyers near Kolombangara in...
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destroyer commissioned in 1921 and lost in collision with the light cruiser Jintsū off Cape Miho in 1927 This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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company with five heavy cruisers, a light cruiser, and six destroyers as Japanese forces deployed for an operation to reinforce Japanese forces on Guadalcanal...
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Battle of the Eastern Solomons (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
departed the major Japanese base at Truk Lagoon (Chuuk) and headed towards Guadalcanal. The transports were guarded by the light cruiser Jintsū, eight destroyers...
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Battle of the Java Sea (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
consisted of two heavy (Nachi and Haguro) and two light cruisers (Naka and Jintsū) and 14 destroyers (Yūdachi, Samidare, Murasame, Harusame, Minegumo, Asagumo...
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Guadalcanal campaign (category 1942 in Japan)
campaign to eventually capture or neutralize the major Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain. The Japanese defenders, who had occupied those islands since May...
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of Japan List of battlecruisers of Japan List of cruiser classes of the Imperial Japanese Navy List of cruisers of Japan List of destroyers of Japan Jentschura...
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Battle of Midway (category Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service)
trap, clearing the seas for Japanese attacks on Midway, Fiji, Samoa, and Hawaii. The plan was undermined by faulty Japanese anticipations of the American...
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Operation Ke (redirect from Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal)
Jun'yō, battleships Kongō and Haruna, heavy cruisers Atago, Takao, Myōkō, and Haguro, light cruisers Jintsū, Agano, and Nagara, destroyers Kagerō, Asagumo...
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1910s. The ship was sunk on August 24, 1927 in a collision with the cruiser Jintsū off Miho Bay, and was struck from the naval list on September 15, 1927...
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preceding light cruiser-sized Asashio class, with improvements made by Japanese naval architects to improve stability and to take advantage of Japan’s lead in...
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Jinzū River (category CS1 uses Japanese-language script (ja))
World War II. The Japanese Navy cruiser Jintsū was named after this river. "Gazetteer of Japan 2021", p.29. 神通川 [Jinzū River] (in Japanese). Kotobank. Archived...
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