Photos WW2 Japanese Forces

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Japanese fighter ace Takeo Tanimizu on Okinawa with his Mitsubishi A6M.

Tanimizu also showed compassion as a fighter pilot, once zooming in low and throwing his life preserver to U.S. Marine Captain Harvey Carter of Glendale, California, who had just been shot down and was swimming in the ocean. Although he served his Emperor to the best of his abilities and survived the war and eventually lived to a ripe old age, Tanimizu all through the rest of his years was to lament his actions and pray nightly at the small Buddhist altar in his home for the souls of the men he had killed.

 

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Heavy cruiser Haguro firing on US carrier aircraft while under air attack, Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, 24 October 1944

 

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Some random ww2 aircraft

 

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Tone-class heavy cruiser Chikuma at Kure, circa 1941

 

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WOW, those are great aircraft pictures mate, keep'em coming!!

 

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IJN Yahagi under attack by U.S. planes. One direct hit can be seen bursting on the fantail, as near-misses straddle her. The photo was taken before turret no. 2 was hit by a bomb, April 7, 1945

 

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Battleship Ise and destroyer Shimotsuki manoeuvring to counter air attacks from USN planes. Pic taken from a USN Avenger, note the wing damage. Battle of Cape Engaño, Oct 1944

 

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Converted aircraft carrier Junyō moored at Sasebo, Japan, in the autumn of 1945.

 

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Female civilians training with a Type 11 machine gun, Ryukyu Islands, Jun 1945

 

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WWII. Rabaul, New Britain. Temporarily land based, these Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero long range fighters of the IJN carrier Zuikaku (Auspicious Crane) prepare to take off on a mission.

 

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Japanese troops, part of the first contingent of reinforcements sent under the Franco-Japanese Joint Defence Protocol, await orders to advance, near Saigon, French Indochina, 1 October 1941

Japan had entered negotiations with the Vichy French government to broker an agreement under which Japanese troops were allowed into and permitted to establish bases in French Indochina in September 1940, for the purposes combating Chinese in the Southern China area and their supply routes through Burma. They refrained from entering Southern French Indochina as the US and Britain had strongly protested the Japanese having air bases in Southeast Asia.

On July 29th 1941 the French signed a Joint Defence Protocol under which Japanese forces would enter the rest of the colony, and have access to naval and air bases, and would be essentially become a de-facto occupation.

 

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Japanese troops, part of the first contingent of reinforcements sent under the Franco-Japanese Joint Defence Protocol, await orders to advance, near Saigon, French Indochina, 1 October 1941

Japan had entered negotiations with the Vichy French government to broker an agreement under which Japanese troops were allowed into and permitted to establish bases in French Indochina in September 1940, for the purposes combating Chinese in the Southern China area and their supply routes through Burma. They refrained from entering Southern French Indochina as the US and Britain had strongly protested the Japanese having air bases in Southeast Asia.

On July 29th 1941 the French signed a Joint Defence Protocol under which Japanese forces would enter the rest of the colony, and have access to naval and air bases, and would be essentially become a de-facto occupation.

this is not near Saigon ( hcm city ) Saigon and southern Vietnam are flat delta ( aka no mountain ) from the photo it look like near china-Vietnam border and this soldier are waiting for the negotiation of French-Japanese in 1940 befor entering to Vietnam.

 

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Battleship Nagato at anchor off the Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, circa in September 1945.

 

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Mitsubishi KI-21 with Mt. Fuji in the background

 

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Mission to Germany.
Tripartite Pact provide an exchange of strategic materials and manufactured goods between Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
Japanese submarine I-8 who departed from Kure on June 1st 1943 arrived 9 days later in Singapore, taking on board quinine, tin and raw rubber.
Somewhere in the Atlantic, she rendezvoused on August 20th with U-161 and transferred two radio-technicians who installed a FuMB 1 Metox 600A radar detector on bridge. I-8 finaly arrived safely to theU-Bunker in Brest two days later under air cover of Ju 88 sent by Luftwaffe.

 

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Mitsubishi Ki-67 ′′ Hiryu ′′ taking off.

 

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Unable to keep up with the main Japanese fleet given their small displacement and the arrival of more modern and dedicated units, these old Japanese destroyers were pressed into service as patrol boats or as escort ships for convoys. Based in Palau and tasked with protecting the convoys from submarine attacks, 'Wakatake' was caught by US Aircraft when they launched an aerial campaign over the Palau Islands known as Operation Desecrate One. The ship was sunk during this action.

Destroyer 'Wakatake' under attack, Palau Islands, 30 March 1944