The attack on Kure was an air raid conducted during the Pacific War by the United States Navy on 19 March 1945. It targeted the remnants of the Japanese...

The attacks on Kure and the Inland Sea by United States and British naval aircraft in late July 1945 sank most of the surviving large warships of the Imperial...

merge into Kure. April 21, 1941 — The town of Nigata and the village of Hiro incorporated into Kure. March 19, 1945 — US Navy aircraft attack Japanese warships...

October 1945) Rear-Admiral Tametsugu Okada (15 October 1945 – 30 November 1945) Naval Academy Etajima Etajima Attack on Kure (March 1945) Attacks on Kure and...

The following major attacks were conducted on Kure and the nearby region: 19 March 1945 – Attack on warships at and near Kure by the United States Navy's...

once again on 10 February, and Yamato was allotted to the 1st Carrier Division. On 19 March, American carrier aircraft from TG 58.1 attacked Kure Harbour...

She arrived back at Kure on 22 January 1945 and was credited with sinking an escort carrier and a large oiler, but the attack was not successful. After...

On the night of 9/10 March 1945, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) conducted a devastating firebombing raid on Tokyo, the Japanese capital city...

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu...

of the 2nd Fleet. On 10 February, Haruna was assigned to the Kure Naval District. On 19 March 1945, American carrier aircraft attacked the remainder of...

slightly damaged in an air raid on 19 March. On 24 July 1945, Task Force 38 launched a large air raid against Kure aimed at the final destruction of the Imperial...

victory) First Battle of Kure (19 March 1945, Japanese defensive victory against US) Battle of the Malacca Strait (15-16 May 1945, RN victory) Operation...

desperate measures, including a variety of suicidal attacks which were popularly called kamikaze. By May 1945, most of the Imperial Japanese Navy had been sunk...

On 18 March, carrier aircraft struck Japanese airfields and other military facilities on Kyushu. The next day they attacked Japanese warships at Kure...

April 1945 the staff's vice chief, Vice Admiral Jisaburō Ozawa, had rejected the proposal. I-400 was in drydock at Kure, Japan, on 19 March 1945 when the...

USS Yorktown attacked the harbor but with no hits on Takasago Maru. On 1 December, she was assigned to the Allied Repatriation Service at Kure. Between 1947...

settled on the bottom of shallow Kure harbor in April 1945; two raids in late July reduced her to an unsalvageable hulk. During the attack on 24 July 1945, future...

Ōyodo were sunk on the final day of the bombing of Kure. The American destroyer Callaghan was sunk by a Yokosuka K5Y kamikaze attack off Okinawa. The...

On August 6 and 9, 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The bombings killed...

Cuttack, India. Kumano was withdrawn back to Japan, arriving at Kure Naval Arsenal on 27 April. On 26 May, she arrived at Guam to join the escort for the Midway...

February and March. From April 20th to May 1st, Yukikaze escorted Japanese warships from Kure to Lingga. On May 22nd, Yukikaze scraped her hull on a reef while...

Luzon Strait by the American submarine USS Sawfish on 26 July 1944. In March 1944 I-52 left Kure with a cargo of metals, including gold, and a team of...

sent back to Kure for repairs until December 27. Afterwards, she conducted training operations in the Seto Inland Sea. At the beginning of 1945  or around...

attacked Japanese ships in the harbor at Kure. American aircraft strafed I-401, but she was not damaged. On 11 April 1945, I-401 put to sea from Kure...

the Kure Naval District. I-158 assumed duties as a training ship at the Kure Submarine School that day, continuing in that role until March 1945. Submarine...

bombing in 1945, the population dropped to 137,197. By 1955, the city's population had returned to pre-war levels. Hiroshima Prefecture Kure Higashihiroshima...

waters and was finally sunk by aircraft, near Kure, on 24 July 1945. She was raised postwar and broken up at Kure in 1948. The career of Chikuma (筑摩) parallels...

in Bungo Channel resulting in a month of repairs at Kure Naval Arsenal. At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Kuroshio, was assigned to Destroyer Division...

More than 240 American carrier-based aircraft from Task Force 58 attacked Kure on 19 March and the ship was hit by three bombs, killing 37 and wounding 52...

Ecuador declares war on Germany and Japan. 2: Naval docks at Singapore are destroyed by B-29 attacks. 3: The Battle of Manila (1945) begins: Forces of the...