Today I get started talking about Japanese ship designs, specifically the Destroyers and Light Cruisers. Especially with the Destroyers, the smaller size of these vessels belied a powerful punch that the IJN hoped would prove decisive in the war to come. 

 

Bibliography for this episode: 

 

  1. Evans, David C. and Mark R. Peattie Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941 Naval Institute Press 1997
  2. Stille, Mark E. The Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War Osprey Publishing 2013

 

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