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Stories and Battle Histories of the IJN's Battleships
(Updated 12 September 2009)
By Bob Hackett, Sander Kingsepp and Lars Ahlberg
This page of Tabular Records of Movement (TROMs) for battleships of the Imperial
Japanese Navy has been prepared by Bob Hackett, Sander Kingsepp and Lars Ahlberg
from Japanese and American source materials.
Shortcuts to Special Features related to Japanese
battleships
The Fate of Battleship
KONGO
Death of Battleship HIEI
Shell Game at Surigao:
The entangled fates of battleships FUSO and YAMASHIRO
Japanese Battleships: Tabular Records of Movement
(TROMs)
(Class types link to specification summaries)
Bibliography
of Sources
About the Authors
Mr. Robert Hackett is a military historian and researcher.
Retired from the United States Air Force and later from the aerospace industry,
he resides in the United States. In collaboration with Mr. Kingsepp, he
prepared the TROMs for the IJN's battleships, cruisers, submarines and other IJN
warships presented on this and other pages on this website.
Mr. Sander Kingsepp, a native of Estonia, is also a military historian and
researcher. He is an editor of a construction magazine. A talented linguist,
Sander's translations of Japanese source materials have added immeasurably to
these TROMs.
Major Lars Ahlberg is on active duty with the Swedish Air Defence
Regiment. He resides in Halmstad, Sweden and is a military historian by
avocation. He has written monographs about NAGATO, MUTSU and carrier TAIHÔ.
Questions to the authors concerning these TROMs should be posted on the
Discussion and Questions board.
