I finally got the Photography Masterpiece Collection by Shizuo Fukui. I’m not sure if it is the same edition as the one sold in Amazon, but I attach below some pics of the cover. I will review these in more detail, but besides the impressive photography quality in high resolution, it includes tons of data […]
Battleships
The Battleship Yamashiro is, together with Nagato and Akagi, one of my favorite ships. She had a tall tower in a unique pagoda shape that makes her impressive when observed from her profile. To easily learn and navigate through her service and building times, I combined the available information with a timeline representation. I hope […]
A new page for the last battle of the Musashi Battleship The Battleship Musashi was the most advanced and large warship in her era together with the Battleship Yamato, her twin. In the last mission, the Battleship Musashi took part in the last battle of her history. During 5 hours and 20 minutes the Musashi […]
I uploaded new page for the Ise-class battleships (伊勢型戦艦 ) which includes, the battleship Ise and the battleship Hyuga. Interestingly, both were converted to hybrid aircraft carriers by removing two heavy turrets and adding a float-plan air wing. See the page here. The page includes information about the construction, successive modifications and major operations in […]
The description and information for the Nagato-class battleships (長門型戦艦 Nagato-gata senkan) is posted here. The page includes information about the construction, successive modifications and major operations in which the ship was involved. The images also represents the original ship in those days. I also try to compare the ship characteristics with the counters statistics provided […]
The Fusō-class battleships (扶桑型戦艦 Fusō-gata senkan) is presented here.
I added new information about the battleships of the imperial Japanese Navy here.
