Japanese Battleships During WW II-- Part 2

As I said in the last post, I was very much surprised at how few battleships Japan had during the war.

The United Sates, on the other hand, had 24 (counting the USS Arizona, USS Oklahoma and USS Utah which were knocked out of the war on the first day for the country.)

Continuing with the Japanese battleships:

NAGATO-CLASS

NAGATO   Both ships underwent  significant modernization 1934-1936, rebuilding superstructure into the more familiar pagoda mast style.  (I will also be writing about the Japanese pagoda masts this month.)

MITSU

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YAMATO-CLASS

YAMATO   Five planned, one converted into aircraft carrier, two cancelled.  The Yamato was sunk during a one-way trip to Okinawa during Operation  Ten-Go.  She never saw combat.

MUSASHI

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DESIGN 1-150

Popularly known as the "Super-Yamato class was a planned class of battleships.  In keeping with the IJN's long-held doctrine of qualitative superiority, they were designed to be the most powerful battleships afloat.  As part of this, the class would have had six 20.1-inch guns.

Design work on  the A-150s began after the Yamato-class was mostly finished by  early 1941, when the Japanese began focusing on aircraft carriers and other smaller warships in preparation for the coming conflict.

No A-150 was ever laid down and many of the designs of the class were destroyed near the end of the war.

--GreGen