Tone-class Heavy Cruiser

Tone-class Heavy Cruiser

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This article refers to the entire Tone-class; it is not about an individual vessel.

ww2dbaseThe Tone-class heavy cruisers were designed to provide long range air scouting for task forces that these ships may serve with. As the result, all of their primary guns were placed forward of the ships so that the entire aft sections could be devoted to aircraft operations. The maximum of eight aircraft aboard each ship were launched from the two gunpowder-propelled catapults, giving them excellent capabilities to conducting scouting operations even though in practice each ship only carried five aircraft. During the war, both ships of this class, Tone and Chikuma, participated in the majority of the Pacific War's battles and campaigns.

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Last Major Revision: Jul 2009

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Tone-class Heavy Cruiser Operational Timeline

20 Nov 1938	Tone was commissioned into service.
20 May 1939	Chikuma was commissioned into service.
1 Mar 1942	Chikuma, Yugure, and other destroyers sank merchant ship Modjokerto in the Indian Ocean about 250 nautical miles southwest of Tjilatjap, Java, Dutch East Indies at 1145 hours.
5 Nov 1943	During the US raid on Rabaul, New Britain, Chikuma was damaged by a near miss from a dive bomber piloted by Lieutenant (jg) John Lucas.
24 Jul 1945	British TF 37 launched 416 sorties, 261 of which were sent against the Japanese home islands and 155 were for defensive patrols; escort carrier Kaiyo was damaged by British carrier planes. On the same day, American TF 38 launched 600 aircraft against Kure, Nagoya, Osaka, and Miho, sinking battleship-carrier Hyuga, heavy cruiser Tone, and target ship Settsu, and damaging carrier Ryuho, carrier Amagi, battleship-carrier Ise, battleship Haruna, heavy cruiser Aoba, light cruiser Oyodo, transport Kiyokawa Maru; the Aichi aircraft factories at Nagoya were seriously damaged.

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