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--Flight deck, carrier-based aircraft, etc. are new parts.
--Hyuga was completed at Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works in April 1918 as the second Ise-class battleship.
--The Ise-class battleship was originally a Fuso-class battleship because the start of construction was significantly delayed due to the financial tightness at that time, but it turned out that this class had a number of drawbacks based on the war lessons of the Battle of Jutland. This defect was corrected and it was designed and started as a modified Fuso type.
――Therefore, the appearance is very similar to the Fuso type, but there is a difference in the arrangement of the turrets, and the point is that the 3rd and 4th turrets in the center of the ship are arranged on the backpack behind the rear chimney.
--Hyuga was immediately incorporated into the 1st Fleet of the 1st Fleet together with Ise, and the world's strongest fleet of 4 battleships equipped with Fuso, Yamashiro, Ise, and Hyuga's super-class 36cm guns was completed.
――However, Hinata caused an explosion of the No. 3 turret in October 1919, and in the following nine years it became a reserve ship and raised the elevation angle of the main gun for long-range artillery to 30 °. It is undergoing remodeling one after another.
--And from 1927, the reinforcement work of the foremast tower was carried out, and the shooting command post, the measuring station, the watch station, the irradiation command center, the mast command center, each directional board aiming device, the measuring board, etc. It has changed completely from the previous one, and now it has become a familiar Japanese battleship-like ship.
--This renovation work was completed in 1928. However, in 1930, a water reconnaissance aircraft stand was installed on the No. 5 turret, and in 1933, a catapult and a crane were installed on the rear deck to install three water reconnaissance aircraft. Small remodeling will continue.
――In this way, when 10 years passed in the Showa era, the rapid evolution of aircraft made it necessary to strengthen aviation, anti-aircraft armament, artillery warfare, and gun warfare capability. Renovation work has begun, 8m rangefinding, 10m rangefinding at the top of the front tower, a shooting directional board, strengthened waterline armor belt and bulge, etc.
――And after this, although there were some minor modifications, I entered the Pacific War with this figure.
――Hyuga has been working with Ise from the beginning to the end of the war, but at the beginning of the war, he belonged to the 2nd Fleet of the 1st Fleet and Hyuga is the flagship of the squadron.
--On the day of the start of the war on December 8, 1941, it would be cool to write that the pillar island harbor was dispatched to the courageous Pacific Ocean ..., but MTF support is a sortie for a medal. Is the truth.
――After this, the battleships will become the `Hashirashima Fleet`, which is devoted to training at the Hashirashima harbor, with the activities of the aircraft carrier task force and aviation unit.
--Hyuga caused an explosion of the No. 5 turret during training in May 1942, and in support of Operation Midway, the base of the No. 5 turret was closed and a 25mm anti-aircraft gun was mounted. As you can see, in the Battle of Midway, the low-speed battleships end without any help.
--The Navy, which lost its four main aircraft carriers at one time on the Midway, decided to convert the battleship into an aircraft carrier, and it was Ise, a ship of the same type as Hinata, which had no fifth turret, with a white arrow.
――Fuso and Yamashiro were also listed as candidates, but they were canceled after all.
--And the unprecedented half-aircraft carrier and half-battleship air battleship with the removal of the 5th and 6th turrets and the flight deck at the rear will be completed in August 1943.
--The onboard aircraft are Comet 33 and Mizuun. A 634 aviation corps dedicated to Ise and Hyuga has also been formed and has begun intense training.
――It is said that the aircraft will use a catapult to depart and will return to a nearby aircraft carrier or land base because it cannot land.
--Although the battlefield kept a lull in 1943, the Allied forces suddenly intensified in 1944, and the carrier air wing, which was proud of its strength, was destroyed in the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June. It's gone.
――And in October, Operation Sho-go, a rebirth of death, was launched to protect the absolute defense zone when the Allied forces landed on Leyte Island in the Philippines.
――This operation is to attack the Allied Forces that landed in Leyte with a fleet centered on the battleship unit and drive it down, but the problem here is the US aircraft carrier unit under Halsey.
――In order to lift this unit, it was a strategy of overthrowing by throwing in a naked aircraft carrier unit that was destroyed in Mariana and had almost no aircraft, and used it as a decoy.
――The members of this decoy fleet were Zuikaku, Zuiho, Chitose, Chiyoda's four aircraft carriers, and Ise and Hyuga, who were stripped of the 634 Air Corps.
--The decoy carrier fleet, under the command of Jisaburo Ozawa, brilliantly lifted the Halsey fleet off Cape Engaño, and the decoy operation was a great success. The operation itself failed due to the transition just before the Leyte Gulf, where the fleet is still a mystery.
――But are Hinata and Ise outstanding battleships and battleships? He fought hard with ordinary anti-aircraft fire, fulfilled his escort mission well, and survived safely.
――After that, Hinata once returned to the inland, sent an army soldier to Singapore, developed Operation Kita, which was full of strategic supplies including gasoline on the way back and delivered it to the mainland, and passed through the net of the US submarine with the thought of stepping on thin ice and safely Wu. He returned to the military port and succeeded in the operation.
--Hyuga, who became a reserve ship when he returned to Wu, dealt with the air attack as a floating battery as it was, but it was difficult to move, and he was struck by the air raid on July 24 and was wrecked. It burned up and landed early in the morning on the 26th.
――And in July 1947 after the war, the dismantling work was completed and the history of battleships in Japan ended.
[Points (at the beginning of the war)]
--Standard displacement: 36,000 tons
--Overall length: 215.80m
--Water line length: 213.36m
--Maximum width: 33.83m
--Main engine: 4 Kampon turbines, 4 axes
--Output: 80,000 horsepower
--Speed: 25.26 knots
--Cruising power: 16 knots 7,870 nautical miles
--Weapon: 36 cm twin gun x 6, 14 cm single gun x 20, 12.7 cm twin high angle gun x 4 8 gates, 25 mm twin gun x 10 20 gates
( This is a machine translation. Please allow for possible misinterpretations in the text. )