Japanese cruiser Mikuma information

Mikuma (三隈, Mikuma) was a heavy cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The second vessel in the four-ship Mogami class, she was laid down in 1931 and commissioned...

Two warships of Japan have been named Mikuma: Japanese cruiser Mikuma, a Mogami-class cruiser launched in 1934 and sunk in 1942 JDS Mikuma, a Chikugo-class...

a Nagara-class light cruiser in the Imperial Japanese Navy. The ship was named after the Natori River in Miyagi prefecture, Japan. Natori was the third...

Kumano (熊野) was one of four Mogami class of heavy cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy, serving in World War II. She was named after the Kumano River...

completed Nagara-class light cruiser in the Imperial Japanese Navy, named after the Kinu River in Tochigi prefecture Japan. She was active in World War...

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...

A heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser, a naval warship designed for long range and high speed, armed generally with naval guns of roughly 203 mm (8 inches)...

fourth of the six ships completed in the Nagara class of light cruisers for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and like other vessels of her class, she was intended...

shares her name with a World War II heavy cruiser Mikuma and Cold War destroyer escort Mikuma. In 2015 the Japanese defense budget allocated funds to study...

9–10 March 1942 and were held by the Japanese for three and a half years. The crew of the Japanese cruiser Mikuma suffered six killed and 11 wounded, as...

lone Japanese destroyer, the Tanikaze. Then on June 6, Kleiss accompanied Enterprise's dive bombers in a mission that helped sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma...

the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo and the Japanese Kwantung Army in China and Manchuria. Upon the intervention of the Soviet Union against Japan in...

Richard E. Fleming piloted a SB2U-3 Vindicator in an attack on the Japanese cruiser Mikuma on 5 June 1942, for which he was posthumously awarded the Medal...

who scored three hits on Japanese ships during the Battle of Midway (aircraft carriers Kaga and Hiryū and heavy cruiser Mikuma), wrote: "From the experience...

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...

Asashio in rescuing survivors from the stricken cruiser Mikuma and, during the attacks on the cruisers, suffered severe damage from United States Navy...

cripple the heavy cruiser USS Houston with a torpedo hit to her bow, alongside gunfire damage from the heavy cruisers Mogami and Mikuma, followed by Houston...

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Midway) Tamon Yamaguchi, 49, Japanese admiral (killed in the Battle of Midway) During the Battle of Midway, Japanese cruiser Mikuma was bombed and sunk by Douglas...

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...