The Tabular Records of Movement (TROMs) presented on these pages for the Imperial Japanese Navy's "Junyokan" - cruisers - have been prepared by Bob Hackett and Sander Kingsepp from Japanese and American source materials. Japanese cruisers ranged throughout the Pacific in World War II and were in the forefront of virtually all the major engagements against Allied Forces.
As these TROMs disclose, only a few Junyokan meet their doom in the surface engagements for which they were designed; most were destroyed by bombs and torpedoes delivered by aircraft or had their hulls ripped open to the seas by submarine-launched torpedoes. As usual, every effort has been made to provide the latest verified information on the movements, engagements and ultimate fates of these major combatants. This series begins with the TROMs for Japan's heavy cruisers and will be followed by the TROMs for the light cruisers. Feel free to post any questions to us on the Discussion and Questions board link above -Bob Hackett.
The NACHI ~ MOGAMI
Collision: A Study in the Fragility of History
Ship of Nine Lives: The
long struggle of cruiser KUMANO
A Tale of Two Cripples:
USS BERGALL vs MYOKO
Mr. Robert Hackett is a military historian and researcher. Retired from the United States Air Force and later from the aerospace industry, he resides in the United States.
Mr. Sander Kingsepp is also a military historian and researcher. An editor of a construction magazine, he resides in Estonia. A talented linguist, his translations of Japanese source materials have added immeasurably in the research of these works. Bob and Sander prepared the TROMs on the IJN's cruisers presented on JUNYOKAN! pages and on the IJN's battleships and submarines presented on the SENKAN! and SENSUIKAN! pages. Please post any questions you may have on the Discussion and Questions board below:
