Battle of Cape Square (Square ノ Cape red sea 戦, April 7, 1945) is the Imperial Japanese Navy launched Kikusui One aspect of operations. Japanese warships and frigates were nine special forces troops as water, with the U.S. Navy carrier aircraft launched air combat mother. Finally, including Japan, including a total of six ships were sunk.
Background
The end of the Pacific War the spring of 1945, the United fleet has lost most of the main ships. Battleship Yamato and the following, the remnants of the ships are moored at the Wu Jun in Hong Kong. 3 end of the Allied landing in order to prevent the Japanese mainland Japan, Okinawa Defense launched the One-day war operations, special forces as part of combat operations Kikusui to Japan as the center of the fleet will attack to Okinawa.
Operational plan by the United Toyota Executive Vice-Admiral Wu general filing, Yamato and its fleet broke into the island of Okinawa, a stationary turret seat shelling reef, the crew and then converted to munitions exhausted Marines and the enemy armed forces. Scheme to be put into Battleship Yamato and Nagato, the position (long the door was moored at the Yokosuka) and fuel issues are available only Yamato. Originally scheduled to carry only one-way fuel. .
March 29, Japan Tokuyama by Wu sail the sea near to the standby. The Japanese have made clear that the U.S. military command of the air, no air machine protection of water forces the inevitable failure of special forces operations, 2nd Fleet, commander of the Ito a whole will continue to oppose the war until the last. April 5th Fleet Joint Chiefs of Staff will take the water grass deer Ryunosuke flying machine, "one billion special attack Quebec と の な っ て い top ki ta" these words will convince Ito.
April 1, the Allies began landing in Okinawa. Japanese decided to launch April 6 Kikusui operations.
Armed forces combat capability
Japanese
2 of the main grounds of the Japanese fleet the first one compiled guerrilla forces.
1 guerrilla forces (Commander Executive: Ito will be the whole of a Chief of Staff: Major General David Morishita letter)
1 Teams
Battleship Yamato (Captain: Fortunately for Colonel Ariga, mate: to the village Jiro Colonel, artillery Length: Black Tianji Lang Lieutenant Colonel): sank. 2,740 killed, 117 wounded war.
Mine Troopers 2 (commander: Major General Tibetan village of Kai)
Corvette vector moreover (Captain: The original is a Colonel): sank. 446 killed, 133 wounded war.
41 expulsion of team (commander: Colonel Justice Yoshida)
Winter months (Captain: Lieutenant Colonel Yamana Kuan Hung): return. 12 killed, 12 wounded war.
Cooler months (Captain: Lieutenant Colonel Toshio Hirayama): After hit return. 57 killed, 34 wounded war.
17 expulsion of team (commander: the new Valley Hi a Colonel)
Angeles Air (Captain: Lieutenant Colonel Maeda real Fringe): Unable to sail, since the sink. 20 killed, 54 wounded war.
Sea Wind (Captain: Lieutenant Colonel David Maekawa million): sank. 100 killed, 45 wounded war.
Ice Wind (Captain: Lieutenant Colonel Temple Ching): return. 3 killed, 15 wounded war.
21 expulsion of team (commander: Colonel small Hisao Takizawa)
North Korea Cream (Captain: Shiro Sugihara and Lieutenant Colonel): estimated in separate operations sank. Commander and captain of the team the following full killed 326 people.
First frost (Captain: three elegant wine Transformers Koro): return. War injuries 2.
Xia (Captain: Matsumoto is flat Koro): Unable to sail, since the sink. 17 killed, 47 wounded war.
Discussion of the potential sweep team
31 Teams (commander: Major General Tsuruoka channel)
Flowers May (Captain: Lieutenant Colonel Hideo East)
Torreya (Captain: Jones Lang Iwabuchi Koro)
槇 (Captain: Ishizuka Sakae Koro)
Participants A total of 4,329 Japanese side of the people. The average age of 27 yrs old.
U.S.
58 Tehunbiandui (Commander: Lieutenant Mark Mitchell)
Aircraft carrier 8
Hornet (CV-12)
No. Bennington (CV-20)
No. Palau Wood (CVL-24)
USS San Jacinto
Essex (CV-9)
Bunker Hill (CV-17)
No. Hancock (CV-19)
No. Bataan (CVL-29)
USS Intrepid
York City No. (CV-10)
Langley (CVL-27)
Battleship 6
No. Massachu_set_ts (BB-59)
No. Indiana (BB-58)
New Jersey (BB-62)
No South Dakota (BB-57)
Wisconsin (BB-64)
USS Missouri (BB-63)
Other support vessels
No Guam, Alaska, a large number cruiser
A large number of destroyers
386 carrier-based aircraft carrier
Square of the Cape sea, the Japanese carrier-based aircraft fleet and the U.S. military's line
U.S. carrier-based aircraft unit of the Congress and the (central left) to attack
Japan (top right) and to avoid movement
Congress and the explosion at 16:00 on April 6, Battleship Yamato 1 belongs to the guerrilla forces to attack the German mountain waters. U.S. submarine in the Bungo Channel that the Japanese fleet moving south, issued a circular to the U.S. fleet.
April 7 dawn, the Japanese fleet through the Osumi Peninsula, traveling to Okinawa. Japanese fleet in turn to the central vector moreover, Japan, around 1,500 meters into the eight destroyers The Wheel formation, with 20 advancing. North Korea subsequently cream destroyer off the engine failure team. U.S. military reconnaissance plane began to track the Japanese fleet. 10, found the Japanese fleet westward direction, 11:30 to Okinawa straight forward.
Although the U.S. holds the control of the air and sea coast of Japan. But in fact the Japanese 5th Air Fleet (Kanoya base) Lieutenant Commander Executive Ugaki winding 20 alone command Zero
1st wave of attacks
When Congress and the number of perceived attack, the attack on Okinawa, the U.S. commander of the 5th Fleet Admiral Raymond Spruance de Williams intended to ship battle, but because of the Japanese fleet was later whereabouts were unknown, the final decision by the Mitscher 58th Tactical Unit will implement air attacks.
10 before and after the location in the east of Okinawa, home air out 8 of about 400 the number of wave attack team. Attacking team from the F6F fighters, F4U fighters, SB2C explosion hit machine, TBF attack machine. Other support ships were preparing to stop the air attack failed when the advancing Japanese fleet. U.S. forces attack team spent about 2 hours flew by the Okinawa range air attack the Japanese fleet surrounded and organizations outside the assembly.
Team 1 wave of attacks began at 12:30 attacks. Japan's fleet began to speed 25 knots for the avoidance of action and on the air battle. Japan about 150 pairs of empty firearms. Focus to the U.S. Congress and the lightning machine port attack. 12:46, vector moreover the engine part was torpedoed, not navigation. Then at least six vector moreover be made bombs and 12 torpedo hits. To help the Rockies wind vector moreover also under attack, not hit after the voyage. Vector moreover sank at 14:05. 1st wave attacks by Japanese torpedo bomb 2 rounds with a hit, resulting in slowed down, stern fire. Cool off on the team was hit, shore wind sank. The engine failure in Japan toward the cream so that was before the air strikes had been sunk.
2 wave 3 wave of attacks
13:20 to 14:15, the first wave 2 and 3 teams incoming wave of attacks. Attacks focused on the Yamato, Japan by at least eight torpedoes and 15 bombs hit send. Bomb damage leading to reduced ability of air fire. Torpedo hit the port side focus. 13:33, to the starboard engine room and boiler room water to maintain balance. Many crew members were unaware of the flooding death. Starboard engine lost a lot of flooding and the speed down to 10 knots. Large low-speed forward and become an excellent target torpedo attack aircraft, attack focused on the rudder and stern.
14:02, that Japan will be sunk Ito ordered suspension of operations, the crew from the ship. 14:05, Japan began to capsize. He will be there with the Captain Ito Fortunately for Colonel refused to leave ship. 14:20, Japan began to sink. 14:23, big and ammunition depot explosion. Cloud burst at 200 kilometers from the Kagoshima also witnessed. (Latitude 30 degrees 22 minutes east longitude 128 degrees 04 minutes Expression error: unexpected / operator; Expression error: unexpected / operator)
Return
16:39, 1 issued a salvage crew commander of the guerrilla forces, anti-back to Sasebo command. The Japanese side in this battle in Congress and, light patrol vector moreover, the destroyer was sunk shore wind, Xia and Rocky can not sail and the wind from the sink. Frost action in the separation of the sinking of the DPRK (full killed). Cooler months and returned to Sasebo on the loss of the bow. Winter months with less damage destroyers, snow wind, the first frost of the Japanese rescue 280 survivors, 555 vector moreover survivors, Rockies wind, shore wind, Xia, more than 800 survivors, carrying the survivors return to Sasebo. About 3,700 people died.
10 U.S. aircraft have been shot down-to-air fire, the war dead total of 12. Testimony that U.S. warplanes have attacked with machine guns, survivors of the Japanese sea. On the other hand, there testimony that aid survivors of destroyer did not make U.S. aircraft during the attack.
During the battle, the Japanese Army in Okinawa to the U.S. fleet to attack. April 7, about 115 planes to attack U.S. warships, mostly for the special forces unit. Japanese aircraft lost in the attack about 100 aircraft.
Battle of timing
At 13:59 on April 5 No. 1 Japanese guerrilla forces prepared to attack the command.
At 15:20 on April 6 1 Japanese guerrilla forces attack on German mountain waters.
19:45 1 alert navigation sequence.
No. found in the U.S. Rocky wind 20:20 submarines.
At 06:00 on April 7 3 alert navigation sequence.
06:30 Japanese reconnaissance aircraft only carry the water return the Japanese mainland.
06:57 towards the cream (the expulsion force commander Zuochuan 21) due to mechanical failure off the team.
06:30 -10:00 hectares of coastal waters are in the Amami Islands of the U.S. Navy launched 58 Tehunbiandui, a movement of about 400 fighters, divided into 1 team and the No. 2 offensive attack team, followed by attack.
1 10:00 guerrilla forces are found in the Japanese military two aircraft. Since then, the fleet and vanguard of the attack team F6F fighters, F4U fighter planes were more than 10 contacts, camouflage route stop, straight direction south of Okinawa.
11:35 are large and on board radar to detect the air outside 100 km from the large U.S. formations close to ship machines.
12:15 Members of Congress and the less the total Ge Jian-to-air combat configured. No presumption of frost at this time toward the sinking.
12:30 U.S. attacks are a big team formation in the clouds lowered, beginning with the first contact with a guerrilla force.
12:35 are large and the following Ge Jian-to-air battle begins.
12:47 shore wind sank.
14:05 arrows moreover sank.
Congress and the full withdrawal of the command 14:20 transmitter.
14:23 Japanese sink (port side of the large tilt, before and after the main artillery fire Medicines Library induced burst cause a huge explosion and sank.)
14:23 Ito will be killed, Major-General to take over the Japanese village guerrilla force 1 command.
14:25 U.S. military attack over.
16:39 Japanese order of battle command aborted.
Xia sank 16:57 (Japanese guns lightning Shen).
2 17:42 rescued first frost mine clan commander.
Angeles air from the wind 22:40 Snow sink with lightning guns.
April 8 winter months, snow wind, frost and cold in early May return Sasebo Naval Base.
Of
Battleship Yamato's attack is the last major Japanese naval combat. Operational failure is equal to announce the end of the joint fleet. Almost no remnants of the ship and then subsequently involved in the fighting.
Cool for a few months only emergency repairs. Although the winter months to fix, but the August 20, 1945 in Moji touch mine damage. Wind almost no snow until the end of the war wounded. First frost in July 30, 1945 sunk by mines in Maizuru offshore. This is the first 129 in the Pacific battle, but also the last one sank the Japanese destroyer. |
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