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Description
-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 back of 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 Hinata's super-class 36cm guns was completed.
――However, Hinata caused an explosion of the 3rd turret in October 1919, and in the following 9 years, it became a reserve ship and raised the elevation angle of the main gun for long-range gun battle to 30 °. We are undergoing remodeling one after another.
--And from 1927, the foremast tower was strengthened, and the shooting command center, survey station, watch station, irradiation command center, mast command center, each directional board aiming device, survey board, etc. It has changed completely from the previous one, and now it is 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 mount three water reconnaissance aircraft. Small modifications such as can be continued.
――In this way, when 10 years have passed since the Showa era, the rapid evolution of aircraft made it necessary to strengthen aviation, anti-aircraft armament, gun battle, and gun battle capability. Renovation work has begun, 8m rangefinding, 10m rangefinding at the top of the foremast, a shooting azimuth board, strengthening of the waterline armor belt and installation of a 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 of the war to the end of the war, but at the beginning of the war, he belongs to the 2nd Fleet of the 1st Fleet and 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 Pilgrimage harbor was to sortie and to the 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 the aviation unit as a stumbling block.
--Hyuga caused an explosion of the 5th turret during training in May 1942, and in support of the Midway operation, the base of the 5th turret was blocked and a 25mm anti-aircraft machine gun was mounted on the turret. As you can see, in the Battle of Midway, the slow battleships end without any help.
--The Navy, which lost its four main aircraft carriers at one time in the Midway, decided to convert the battleship into an aircraft carrier, and the arrow of Shirahane stood on the same type ship Ise as Hinata without the fifth turret.
--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.
――The 634 Air Corps dedicated to Ise and Hyuga has also been organized and have begun intense training.
――It is said that the aircraft will use catapults 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 aircraft carrier air force, which was proud of its strength, was destroyed in the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June. It's gone.
――And in October, in order to protect the absolute defense zone when the Allied Forces landed on Leyte Island in the Philippines, Operation No. 1 of Kishikaisei was launched.
――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 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, which is still a mystery of the fleet.
――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, who 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. Returned to the military port and succeeded in the operation.
――Hyuga, who became a reserve ship when he returned to Kure, dealt with the air attack as a floating battery as it was, but it was difficult to move, and he was struck by a large 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.
