• Kure Naval District (呉鎮守府, Kure chinjufu) was the second of four main administrative districts of the pre-war Imperial Japanese Navy. Its territory included...
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    Imperial Japanese Navy. The Kure Naval District was established at Kure, Hiroshima in 1889, as the second of the naval districts responsible for the defense...
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    Training Squadron of the JMSDF Regional Kure District. July 1, 1889 — Kure Naval District established. 1895 — Kure naval shipyard established, initially as...
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    The Kure Naval Base (Japanese: 呉基地, Hepburn: Kure Kichi), also simply known as the JMSDF Kure Naval Base, is a group of ports and land facilities of the...
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    School and the Officer Candidates School, it is home to the local Kure Naval District, LCAC training facilities, and Self-Defense Force oil storage. In...
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  • Navy's Special Naval Landing Forces. Both units were formed at the Kure Naval District. The first iteration of the unit saw action in China in the late...
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    Hiroba – 1/10 scale of the Yamato History of Kure – as the shipbuilding, port city and the Kure Naval District Large objects exhibition room - containing...
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  • The 5th Kure Special Naval Landing Force (5th Kure SNLF) was a naval infantry battalion of the Imperial Japanese Navy's Special Naval Landing Forces....
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    Japan, where he was given command of the Sasebo Naval District. He then transferred to the Kure Naval District on 21 June 1943. From October 1943 to February...
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    Shigetarō Shimada (category Imperial Japanese Naval Academy alumni)
    the Kure Naval District, commander in chief of the IJN 2nd Fleet and China Area Fleet as well as commanding officer of the Yokosuka Naval District. Shimada...
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    Soemu Toyoda (category Japanese naval attachés)
    the attack on Pearl Harbor, Toyoda was Commander-in-Chief of the Kure Naval District. Toyoda was strongly opposed to the war with the United States, which...
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    Kantarō Suzuki (category Imperial Japanese Naval Academy alumni)
    Commandant of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, Commander of the IJN 2nd Fleet, then the IJN 3rd Fleet, then Kure Naval District, he became a full admiral on...
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  • 1st Kure Naval District Special Naval Landing Force (SNLF) - 21 January 1942 - 10 March 1942 Commanding Officer, 5th Kure Naval District Special Naval Landing...
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    Katō Tomosaburō (category Imperial Japanese Naval Academy alumni)
    admiral on 28 August 1908. In 1909, he was appointed commander of the Kure Naval District, and in 1913 became Commander in Chief of the Combined Fleet. Katō...
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    and Commander in Chief of Kure Naval District in May 1934. In April 1936, he was made a full admiral. He became a naval councilor in December 1936....
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    appointed commander of the Kure Naval District and in July 1918 was promoted to full admiral. In December 1919, he was appointed a naval councilor and entered...
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    was transferred back to Japan to become Commander in Chief of the Kure Naval District. He held this post until retiring from active duty in 1944. On 2...
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    Kichisaburō Nomura (category Japanese naval attachés)
    Nomura became Commander in Chief of the Kure Naval District. He was Commander in Chief of the Yokosuka Naval District in December 1930. During the First Shanghai...
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    and the battleship Hiei in 1933. In 1934–1935, he was assigned to Kure Naval District and was in charge of coastal artillery. Iwabuchi was promoted to...
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    briefly commander in chief of the Kure Naval District. On 1 March 1944, he was promoted to admiral. He served as Naval Minister in the cabinet of Prime...
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    administrative assignments at Yokosuka Naval District (from July 1919), Kure Naval District (from October 1919) and Sasebo Naval District (from December 1920). In March...
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    command the guard division at Kure Naval District. He was promoted to rear admiral in May 1943 and made commander of the Kure Naval Arsenal. However, later...
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    First Sino-Japanese War of 1895. He was commander-in-chief of the Kure Naval District from 26 February 1896 to 20 May 1900. In November 1900, he was awarded...
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    Japanese submarine I-168 (category Ships built by Kure Naval Arsenal)
    Kure Naval District. When Submarine Division 12, previously deactivated in 1929, was reactivated on 8 October 1934 and subordinated to the Kure Naval...
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    staff of the Kure Naval District and of the IJN 2nd Fleet, he was further promoted to vice admiral and Commandant of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy on...
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    Japanese battleship Haruna (category Second Sino-Japanese War naval ships of Japan)
    assigned to the Kure Naval District. On 19 March 1945, American carrier aircraft attacked the remainder of the Japanese Navy at Kure. The base was defended...
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    Japanese submarine I-156 (category Ships built by Kure Naval Arsenal)
    directly to the Kure Naval District on 1 December 1936. Submarine Division 19 was reduced to the First Reserve in the Kure Naval District on 7 January 1937...
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    National Route 487 Bombing of Kure (July 1945) Imperial Japanese Naval Academy Kure Naval Arsenal Kure Naval District "Official website of Etajima City"...
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    Japanese destroyer Amagiri (1930) (category Second Sino-Japanese War naval ships of Japan)
    Division 20 of Desron 3 of the IJN 1st Fleet, and had deployed from Kure Naval District to the port of Samah on Hainan Island. From 4 December 1941, to the...
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    casualties. Kure Naval Base 1st Kure SNLF-At Hainan Naval District, 3rd China Fleet 2nd Kure SNLF 3rd Kure SNLF 5th Kure SNLF 6th Kure SNLF 7th Kure SNLF Maizuru...
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