IJN 2nd Fleet

IJN 2nd Fleet

The nihongo|IJN 2nd Fleet|第二艦隊 (日本海軍)|Dai-ni Kantai was a fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

History

First established on 28 December 1903, the IJN 2nd Fleet was created by the Imperial General Headquarters as a mobile strike force of cruisers and destroyers to pursue the Imperial Russian Navy’s Vladivostok-based cruiser squadron while the remaining bulk of the Japanese fleet (the IJN 1st Fleet) continued to blockade Port Arthur in hopes of luring the battleships of the Russian Pacific Fleet out into a classic line-of-battle confrontation.

As the main mobile force in the Imperial Japanese Navy, the IJN 2nd Fleet saw the bulk of all future combat operations from the time of its inception until this dissolution at the end of World War II.

Commanders of the IJN 2nd Fleet

Commander in chief [Wendel, Axis History Database]

Chief of Staff [Wendel, Axis History Database]

References

Books

*cite book
last = D'Albas
first = Andrieu
authorlink =
year = 1965
title = Death of a Navy: Japanese Naval Action in World War II
publisher = Devin-Adair Pub
location =
id = ISBN 0-8159-5302-X

*cite book
last = Dull
first = Paul S.
authorlink =
year = 1978
title = A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941-1945
publisher = Naval Institute Press
location =
id = ISBN 0-87021-097-1

*cite book
last = Lacroix
first = Eric
authorlink =
coauthors = Linton Wells
year = 1997
title = Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War
publisher = Naval Institute Press
location =
id = ISBN 0-87021-311-3

External links

*cite web
last = Nishida
first = Hiroshi
url = http://homepage2.nifty.com/nishidah/e/ja03.htm#2F
title = Imperial Japanese Navy
accessdate = 2007-08-25

*cite web
last = Wendel
first =
url = http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=7821
title = Axis History Database
accessdate = 2007-08-25

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