Photo #: NH 73015
Aoba (Japanese Heavy Cruiser, 1927)
View of the ship's forward smokestack and bridge, seen from the
port side of the upper deck, 1936.
Note searchlight at right.
Donation of Kazutoshi Hando, 1970.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 97732
Aoba (Japanese Heavy Cruiser, 1927)
View looking forward from the bridge, while the ship was underway
prior to World War II.
Note her forward 20cm twin gun turrets.
The original halftone photograph came from Rear Admiral Samuel
Eliot Morison's World War II history project working files.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Note: The original print is somewhat disfigured by
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Photo #: NH 97733
Aoba and Kinugasa
(Japanese Heavy Cruisers, 1927)
World War II era recognition drawings.
These drawings do not reflect changes made in the ships' 1938-40
modernizations.
The original print came from Office of Naval Intelligence files.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 86308
Kako and Furutaka
(Japanese Heavy Cruisers, 1926) -- upper drawings;
and
Aoba
(Japanese Heavy Cruiser, 1927) -- lower drawing
World War II era recognition drawings, showing Kako and
Furutaka after their late 1930s modernization and Aoba
as she was in 1945.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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