Myoko-class Heavy Cruiser

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Contributor: C. Peter Chen

This article refers to the entire Myoko-class; it is not about an individual vessel.

When the Myoko-class cruisers were launched in the late 1920s, they were considered some of the world's most heavily armed cruisers. All four ships served in WW2, with three of them lost before the end of the Pacific War.

Source: Wikipedia.

Photographs

Japanese ships attacked by US planesHaguro in the final stages of fitting out, off MutusbishiHaguro, probably between Dec 1931 and Nov 1932 when she was the third-ranking ship of Japanese NavyHaguro off the mouth of the Yangtse River near Shanghai, China, 1932
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