2 Mar 1880

Japan
4 Sep 1942

Japan
  • USS Guardfish attacked a Japanese convoy off Kuji, Japan, sinking freighter Kaimei Maru and passenger-cargo ship Tenyu Maru. Guardfish continued to pursue the convoy, sinking freighter Chita Maru with a torpedo inside of Kuji harbor. ww2dbase [Guardfish | Kuji, Iwate | CPC]
4 Mar 1943

Japan
  • USS Permit damaged Japanese transport Hokuto Maru just off of the coast of Iwate Prefecture, Japan, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Permit | Iwate | CPC]
14 Jul 1945

Japan
  • American battleships USS South Dakota, USS Indiana, and USS Massachusetts and escorting destroyers bombarded Kamaishi, Honshu, Japan; the primary target was the Kamaishi Works of the Japan Iron Company, but several destroyers shells overshot the target and hit the town, killing many civilians; battleship shells were more accurate, destroying about 65% of the industrial complex, but they also killed many civilians; this was the first time the Japanese home islands were subjected to naval bombardment. To the north, the sinking of 6 warships and 37 steamers on the ferry route between Honshu and Hokkaido islands effectively cut off the latter from the rest of the home islands. At Kure in southern Japan, aircraft of US Navy TF 38 damaged carrier Amagi, carrier Katsuragi, and battleship Haruna; at Misawa in northern Japan, G4M bombers that were assigned to partake the planned Operation Ken, which sought to deliver 300 suicide commandos to the Mariana Islands, were destroyed (the American would not know of Operation Ken until after the war). The carriers were escorted by a large naval force that included battleship USS Missouri. Far to the south, the USAAF XXI Bomber Command canceled a long-range P-51 raid from Iwo Jima to attack Meiji and Kagamigahara near Nagoya due to poor weather. ww2dbase [Preparations for Invasion of Japan | Missouri | Amagi | Katsuragi | Haruna | South Dakota | Massachusetts | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Indiana | Shangri-La | Kamaishi, Iwate | CPC]
Photo(s) dated 14 Jul 1945
USS South Dakota
9 Aug 1945

Photo(s) dated 9 Aug 1945
Battleship Massachusetts firing a full main battery salvo at Kamaishi, Iwate, Japan, 9 Aug 1945; note projectiles in flight at upper left
9 Aug 1947

Photo(s) dated 9 Aug 1947
Emperor Showa visiting Koiwai Farm, Shizukuishi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, 9 Aug 1947



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