Takao-class Photographs | World War II Database

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Atago, date unknown	Chokai underway at sea

Japanese heavy cruiser Atago, early 1930s	Japanese heavy cruiser Chokai, early 1930s

Japanese heavy cruiser Maya as seen on a 1930s postcard	Japanese heavy cruiser Takao, early 1930s

View of forward turrets and bridge of heavy cruiser Takao, 20 Mar 1932	Japanese heavy cruiser Takao on a trial run at full speed off Tateyama, Tokyo Bay, 1 Jul 1932

Chokai firing her 8-inch guns, 1933	Japanese heavy cruiser Maya, circa early 1930s

Kaga, Hiei, Kasuga, and a Takao-class cruiser in harbor, 1932-1934	Japanese heavy cruiser Chokai as seen in US Division of Naval Intelligence publication A503 FM30-50 for ship identification, date unknown

Japanese heavy cruiser Takao underway, summer 1937	Chokai, circa 1938

Recognition drawing for cruisers Takao and Atago (post-1938 configuration) published by US Navy Office of Naval Intelligence	Chokai in Ariake Bay, Apr 1939

Japanese heavy cruiser Takao on a trial run off Tateyama, Tokyo Bay, 14 Jul 1939	Japanese heavy cruiser Atago at the Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, 30 Nov 1939

Cruiser Takao underway, en route to the Guadalcanal area in the Solomon Islands, 14 Nov 1942; photo taken from cruiser Atago, part of which could be seen in foreground	Kirishima and Takao underway, en route to the Guadalcanal area in the Solomon Islands, 14 Nov 1942; photograph taken from cruiser Atago part of which could be seen in foreground