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Japanese Auxiliary Submarine Chaser No.19
''Cha-19'' or ''No. 19'' (''Japanese'': 第十九號驅潜特務艇) was a No.1-class auxiliary submarine chaser of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served during World War II. History She was laid down on 26 March 1942 at the Shizuoka prefecture, Shizuoka shipyard of the Miho Shipyard Co., Ltd. (株式會社三保造船所) and launched on 31 January 1943. She was completed and commissioned on 18 April 1943 and assigned to the Yokosuka Defense Force, Yokosuka Naval District. On 1 July 1943, she was reassigned to 66th Guard Force. On 30 January 1944, Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers and Grumman F6F Hellcat fighters from Task Group 52.8 comprising fleet carriers USS Enterprise (CV-6), ''Enterprise'', USS Yorktown (CV-10), ''Yorktown'', and USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), ''Bunker Hill'' and escort carrier USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24), ''Belleau Wood'', sink ''Cha-19'', Japanese submarine chaser Cha-14 (1943), ''Cha-14'', and Japanese submarine chaser Cha-28 (1943), ''Cha-28'', northeast of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empire Of Japan
The Empire of Japan, also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation state that existed from the Meiji Restoration on January 3, 1868, until the Constitution of Japan took effect on May 3, 1947. From Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, 1910 to Japanese Instrument of Surrender, 1945, it included the Japanese archipelago, the Kuril Islands, Kurils, Karafuto Prefecture, Karafuto, Korea under Japanese rule, Korea, and Taiwan under Japanese rule, Taiwan. The South Seas Mandate and Foreign concessions in China#List of concessions, concessions such as the Kwantung Leased Territory were ''de jure'' not internal parts of the empire but dependent territories. In the closing stages of World War II, with Japan defeated alongside the rest of the Axis powers, the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, formalized surrender was issued on September 2, 1945, in compliance with the Potsdam Declaration of the Allies of World War II, Allies, and the empire's territory subsequent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
