3月8日の写真
軽巡洋艦 川内
日付 1924年3月8日
場所 甑島標柱間
撮影
状況 全力公試中
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3月8日の写真
軽巡洋艦 川内
日付 1924年3月8日
場所 甑島標柱間
撮影
状況 全力公試中
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IJN First-class destroyer Mikazuki (Mutsuki-class)
Date: March 8, 1933
Location: Saiki Bay
Photo:
Situation: anchored
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IJN Battleship Ise
Date: March 8, 1937
Location: Off Cape Sata
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Situation: Under public test operation after major renovation
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IJN Heavy cruiser Myōkō
Date: February 6, 1932
Location: Sasebo Naval Port
Photo:
Situation: Transportation mission for soldiers of the 24th Army Division Nachi and Jintsū to the rear / Kinugasa to the rear, Kiso to the far port side, and Nagara to the far starboard side
Those look fantastic. We'll done.
Doing mockups for a museum exhibit of models. This will be the Essex class case. Five WW II builds, two Korea and three Vietnam, including all four SCB-27s - original SCB-27, a SCB-27A w/angled deck, SCB-27C with angled deck and SCB-27C/125 - with CV-31 in all three wartime rigs. #HistScaleModels
Was looking for background noise for work today, and found "WWII in Color: Road to Victory" on Netflix.
Unlike alot of episodic docuseries, this one is quite accurate. Very good historians were brought in. Some of the stock footage is wrong, but that is a minor complaint.
Its a good watch!
Including real armor/torpedo defense. Was a huge improvement from the treaty cruisers.
The beam ratio onnthe New Orleans cruisers is so small! I forget how much larger the Baltimores were comparatively.
I also love seeing the silhouette of the Alaskas.
Great find!
Hoping for a speedy recovery for them!
Museum ship USS North Carolina (BB-55) North Carolina- class battleship in the sun in Wilmington, North Carolina - January 1, 2026 SRC: webcam
Cover for "Fighting Fifteen: The Navy's Top Ace and Deadliest Hellcat Squadron of the Pacific War" by Stephen L Moore. The cover has a hellcat fighter flying over the water with a Japanese Zero smoking below.
Book cover for Mark Stille's "Leyte Gulf A New History Of The World's Largest Sea Battle". The cover shows an escore carrie on fire in the background while another flattop in the foreground is preparing wildcat fighters for takeoff.
Christmas book finds! Barnes and Nobles 25% off sale brought some great new finds. Fighting Fifteen was reccomedned by a podcast, and I read Stille's Midway book and enjoyed his perspective on the battle.
Did yall get anything great this holiday?? #NavalHistory #histbookchat #WW2 #Booksky
Happy New Years to all of you! 2025 was the start of something special, and 2026 is the year we get into the weeds about the big beautiful boats from our past.
Have a family trip this weekend, and then we will be back to posting regularly!
If anyone has any collaborations in mind DMs are open!
Id love to see Shokaku or Zuikaku more than just about any other wrecks.
12月14日の写真
戦艦 山城
日付 1934年12月14日
場所 館山沖標柱間
撮影
状況 大改装後の全力公試中
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12月14日の写真
巡洋戦艦 榛名
日付 1913年12月14日
場所 神戸川崎造船所第四船台
撮影 神戸川崎造船所
状況 進水
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Fantastic! I've been trying to track down the Fletcher autobiography for a while, but ill put these on some lists to find. Thanks for the quick response!
I have been trying to find more books specifically about Coral Sea. Do you have any suggestions on books or other easily accessible first hand materials?
Good call, i forgot that tag!
Ill add those to my list as well, haven't read them yet!
Its still a really good read! Some of the info has been outdated, but it still has some great accounts of Dec 7th.
Highly recommended!
Thank you, looks like we both have good taste! Shattered Sword is there, but ill look for Castles of Steel!!
Three shelves of misc world War 2 or naval history related books.
Two books prominently displayed. "The Big E The Story of the USS Enterprise" by Edward P Stafford and "Aircraft Carriers and Seaplane Tenders".
Got new bookshelves, so its time to update my library! There will always be room for more!
Anyone have other good book reqs out here?
#NavalHistory #militaryhistory
#OTD in 1941. Captain W. Tennant, Captain of HMS Repulse, and Padre Bezzant after being rescued. #WW2 #HISTORY
From the mouths of the survivors. Force Z is often criticised through cursory analysis. But there is no doubt HMS Repulse was not up to the job. Here's how the sailors who served upon her experienced her demise. #OTD #WW2 #HISTORY #Navalhistory
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An illustration showing Repulse and Prince of Wales on fire and sinking.
HMS Repulse at sea
Officers and sailors on the deck of HMS Prince of Wales with its guns and superstructure in the background. April, 1941.
On 10 Dec, 1941, just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, advanced battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse, known together as Force Z of the Royal Navy, were deployed to repel Japanese advances in the Pacific. (1/4)🧵
#history #OTD #maritimehistory #royalnavy #ww2 #japan
HMS Prince of Wales arriving at Singapore, 4 December 1941. Imperial War Museum image: A 6785.
HMS Repulse photographed from a troop convoy approaching Singapore, 3 December 1941. Imperial War Museum image: A 6794.
A Japanese aerial photograph showing HMS Prince of Wales (top) and HMS Repulse during the early stages of the attack on 10 December 1941 in which they were sunk. HMS Repulse had just been hit for the first time (12.20 hours). Imperial War Museum image: HU 2763.
Memorial to HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales, National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas, near Lichfield, Staffordshire. Photograph by Steve Bowen, 18 April 2018. Wikimedia Commons: CC BY-SA 4.0.
10 Dec 1941 // Battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse were sunk by Japanese aircraft in the South China Sea east of Kuantan, Malaya. They were operating without air cover. 840 men died, 327 from Prince of Wales and 513 from Repulse. (Images all from Imperial War Museum.) [1/2]
Today in WW2 History, 2 Nov 1943: [Photo] B-25 bomber attacking Simpson Harbor, Rabaul #ww2 #onthisday https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=4009
Today in WW2 History, 2 Nov 1945: [Photo] Incomplete Unryu-class carrier Kasagi in Sasebo Bay, Japan #ww2 #onthisday https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=7559
I mean the marketing writes itself haha
Very interesting! I can imagine reading in that style English might be challenging.