• W-101 or No. 101 (Japanese: 第百一號掃海艇) was a Bangor-class minesweeper that was seized by the Imperial Japanese Navy before completion during World War II...
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    the Imperial Japanese Navy, "Kaijinsha"., (Japan), February 1996 The Maru Special, Japanese Naval Vessels No.50, Japanese minesweepers and landing ships...
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    The W1 class minesweeper (第一号型掃海艇,, Dai Ichi Gō-gata Sōkaitei) was a class of minesweepers of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during the 1930s...
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    8 cm/40 3rd Year Type naval gun (category Naval guns of Japan)
    Nagato-class battleship No.1-class auxiliary minelayer No.1-class auxiliary minesweeper No.101-class landing ship No.13-class submarine chaser Notoro-class oiler...
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    Admirable-class minesweeper design basis for the PCE-842 class equipped with substantial anti-submarine capabilities and used as escorts 95 Auk-class minesweeper (890t...
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    The No.13 class minesweeper (第十三号型掃海艇,, Dai Jūsan Gō-gata Sōkaitei) was a class of minesweepers of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during the...
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  • Keinan Maru (Japanese: 慶南丸 ) was an auxiliary minesweeper of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Keinan Maru was laid down on 25 January 1928...
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  • Cha-157, Type C escort ship CD-61, Type D escort ship CD-134, and minesweeper W-101, escorting convoy MI-27 consisting of four tankers (Awagawa Maru,...
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  • 1940 when she was requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her conversion to an auxiliary minesweeper was started on 25 September 1940 at the Mako Naval...
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    The No.19 class minesweeper (第十九号型掃海艇,, Dai Jūkyū Gō-gata Sōkaitei) was a class of minesweepers of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during World...
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  • Edogawa Maru (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    Moji to Miri, Borneo, on 15 November 1944. Escorted by a converted minesweeper (W-101) and three smaller escorts (Type D escort ship CD-134 and two No.1-class...
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    powers. On November 26 in Japan, the day before the note's delivery, the Japanese task force left port for Pearl Harbor. The Japanese intended the attack as...
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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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    Second Sino-Japanese War, and the Soviet–Japanese War in the last few months of the war. The Second Sino-Japanese War between the Empire of Japan and the...
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  • Showa Maru No. 7 (Japanese: 第七昭和丸) was an auxiliary minesweeper of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Showa Maru No. 7 was laid down on 1...
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    Imperial Japanese Forces", Gakken (Japan), January 2008, ISBN 978-4-05-605008-0 The Maru Special, Japanese Naval Vessels No. 50, "Japanese minesweepers and...
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  • Japanese Army Air Force. "Ki" should be read as one word. For clarification on other designations, particularly those used by the Navy, see Japanese military...
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    the Shōwa era, under Hirohito's reign. The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) and the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) were responsible for a multitude of war crimes...
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  • Manazuru PT Tomozuru 11th Minesweeper Division AM W-13 AM W-14 AM W-15 AM W-16 30th Minesweeper Division AM W-17 AM W-18 AM W-19 AM W-20 2nd Gunboat Division...
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    The YMS-1 class of auxiliary motor minesweepers was established with the laying down of YMS-1 on 4 March 1941. Some were later transferred to the United...
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    Invasion of Lingayen Gulf (category 1945 in Japan)
    encountered sparse opposing forces. Lieutenant Commander W. R. Loud, who commanded the minesweeper force, claimed to have found around ten additional mines...
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    planes damaged two Japanese transports (Oigawa Maru and Takao Maru), the cruiser Naka, and the destroyer Murasame, and sank minesweeper W-10. Early on the...
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    USS Finch (AM-9) (category Lapwing-class minesweepers)
    USS Finch (AM-9) was a Lapwing-class minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water...
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    The Bangor-class minesweepers were a class of warships operated by the Royal Navy (RN), Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and Royal...
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  • Uboat. Retrieved 4 July 2013. "Japanese Minelayers". Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 4 July 2013. "Japanese Minesweepers". Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 4...
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    minesweepers (AMS), on 7 February 1955, they were reclassified as coastal minesweepers (minesweeper, coastal) (MSC). The Adjutant-class minesweepers were...
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    Battle of the Coral Sea (category CS1 uses Japanese-language script (ja))
    p. 190). The smaller warships included 5 minesweepers, 2 minelayers, 2 subchasers, and 3 gunboats. Japanese carrier aircraft numbers by ship: Shōkaku...
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  • The Japanese torpedo boat Kotaka of 1885 was "the forerunner of torpedo boat destroyers that appeared a decade later". They were designed to Japanese specifications...
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    USS Heron (AM-10) was a Lapwing-class minesweeper acquired by the United States Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in...
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    escorted by a minesweeper. After I-400 arrived at Ōminato on 22 July 1945, all crewmen received a day of shore leave, the aircraft had their Japanese markings...
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