A member of the residual crew of Japanese Aircraft Carrier Jun'yō (隼鷹) signals an approaching tug from the carrier's flight deck. Photographed at Sasebo, Japan.

Note this Japanese Signalman's bugle, and details of the ship's island.

Date: October 19, 1945

NHHC: SC 218541

Just need to paint a few dozen tiny airplanes and jun'yō is done

Events 9.18 (after 1940)

1940 – World War II: The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees. 1943 – World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews. 1944 – World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs. 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Arracourt begins. 1945 – General Douglas MacArthur moves his general headquarters from Manila to Tokyo. 1947 – The National Security Act reorganizes the United States government's military and intelligence services. 1948 – Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Hyderabad. 1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term. 1954 – Finnish president J. K. Paasikivi becomes the first Western head of state to be awarded the highest honor of the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin. 1960 – Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations. 1961 – U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 1962 – Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations. 1962 – Aeroflot Flight 213 crashes into a mountain near Chersky Airport, killing 32 people. 1973 – The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations. 1974 – Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people. 1977 – Voyager I takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together. 1980 – Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to the Salyut 6 space station. 1981 – The Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France. 1982 – The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon comes to an end. 1984 – Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic. 1988 – The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end. 1988 – General Henri Namphy, president of Haiti, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by General Prosper Avril. 1990 – Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations. 1992 – An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers in Yellowknife, Canada. 1997 – United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations. 1997 – The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted. 2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks. 2007 – Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution. 2011 – The 2011 Sikkim earthquake is felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet. 2012 – Greater Manchester Police officers PC Nicola Hughes and PC Fiona Bone are murdered in a gun and grenade ambush attack in Greater Manchester, England. 2014 – Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom, by 55% to 45%. 2015 – Two security personnel, 17 worshippers in a mosque, and 13 militants are killed during a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attack on a Pakistan Air Force base on the outskirts of Peshawar. 2016 – The 2016 Uri attack in Jammu and Kashmir, India by terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed results in the deaths of nineteen Indian Army soldiers and all four attackers. 2021 – A ferry capsizes in Guizhou province, China due to bad weather, leaving ten people dead and five missing.

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Yoshio Shiga (志賀 淑雄, Shiga Yoshio) was an officer, ace fighter pilot, and leader in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific theater of World War II.  At the December 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor, Shiga led one of the aircraft carrier Kaga's fighter divisions during the first strike on American forces on Oahu. The number of his Zero fighter was AII-105. Shiga continued as a fighter division commander on Kaga until April 1942.

In May 1942, then Lieutenant Shiga took command of aircraft carrier Jun'yō's fighter group, a post he held until December 1942.  During this time, Shiga led the carrier's fighters in the battles of Dutch Harbor and the Santa Cruz Islands. In the latter battle, he attacked the US carriers, USS Hornet (CV-8) and USS Enterprise (CV-6), in which the former was later sunk, while Enterprise was heavily damaged.  He subsequently commanded the aircraft carrier Hiyō's fighter group from December 1942 through January 1943 while the carrier was in port in Japan.

After promotion to Lieutenant Commander, Shiga was assigned as air officer to the 343rd Air Group which was engaged in homeland defence in Japan, based at Matsuyama Air Base, in December 1944. He is famous for his strong objection against the tactic of suicide attack (Kamikaze) and saved many lives of Japanese young pilots.

After the war, Shiga became president of police equipment manufacturer Nobel Kōgyō and made many devices such as bulletproof vests and extractable police batons for Japanese police. He died on 25 November 2005.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshio_Shiga

Illustration for the First Class Lido Pool areas on the proposed Japanese ocean liners Kashiwara Maru and Izumo Maru, ca. 1941. Planned and ordered by the Japanese NYK (Nippon Yūsen Kaisha) Line, the ships never saw passenger service; still under construction when WWII broke out, they were purchased by the Imperial Japanese Navy and completed as aircraft carriers, the Kashiwara Maru as Jun'yō, and the Izumo Maru as Hiyō, and were both lost during the course of the war.

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Aft view of Japanese carrier Jun'yō's island, October 1945 [581x744] Check this blog!

Wikipedia article of the day for June 26, 2017 -- Japanese aircraft carrier Jun'yō

The Wikipedia article of the day for June 26, 2017 is Japanese aircraft carrier Jun'yō. Jun'yō ("Peregrine Falcon") was a Hiyō-class aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was laid down as the passenger liner Kashiwara Maru, but was purchased by the navy in 1941 while still under construction and converted into an aircraft carrier. Launched on 26 June 1941 and completed in May 1942, the ship participated in the Aleutian Islands Campaign the following month and in several battles of the Guadalcanal Campaign later in the year. Her aircraft were used from land bases during several battles in the New Guinea and Solomon Islands Campaigns. Jun'yō was torpedoed in November 1943 and spent three months under repair. She was damaged by several bombs during the Battle of the Philippine Sea in mid-1944, but quickly returned to service. Lacking aircraft, she was used as a transport in late 1944 and was torpedoed again in December. Jun'yō was under repair until March 1945, when work was cancelled as uneconomical. She was then effectively hulked for the rest of the war. After the surrender of Japan in September, the Americans also decided that she was not worth the cost to make her serviceable for use as a repatriation ship, and she was broken up in 1946 and 1947.

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1793 – The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by

George Washington.

1837 – Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded

by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City.

The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".

1870 – Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by

Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn–Langford–Doane

Expedition to Yellowstone.

1940 – The British liner SS City of Benares

is sunk by German submarine U-48 ;

those killed include 77 child refugees.

1943 – World War II: The Jews of Minsk

are massacred at Sobibór .

1943 – World War II: Adolf Hitler

orders the deportation of Danish Jews.

1944 – World War II: The British submarine

HMS Tradewind torpedoes

Jun'yō Maru , 5,600 killed.

1945 – General Douglas MacArthur

moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.

1947 – The United States Air Force

becomes an independent branch of the

United States Armed Forces .

1947 – The National Security Council and the

Central Intelligence Agency are established in the

United States under the National Security Act.

1974 – Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds,

killing 5,000 people.

1977 – Voyager I

takes first photograph of the Earth 

and the Moon together.

1980 – Soyuz 38

carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban )

to Salyut 6 space station

.

1982 – Christian militia begin killing 600

Palestinians inLebanon

.

1984 – Joe Kittinger

completes the first solo balloon

crossing of the Atlantic.

1988 – End of pro-democracy uprisings

in Myanmar after a bloody

military coup by the

State Law and Order

Restoration Council .

Thousands, mostly monks and

civilians (primarily students), are killed by the

Tatmadaw.

. 2007 – Buddhist monks

join anti-government protesters in

Myanmar, starting what some call the

Saffron Revolution.

.

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Japanese aircraft carrier Jun'yō

Japanese aircraft carrier Jun’yō

Jun’yō (“Peregrine Falcon”) was a Hiyō-class aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was laid down as the passenger liner Kashiwara Maru, but was purchased by the navy in 1941 while still under construction and converted into an aircraft carrier. Launched on 26 June 1941 and completed in May 1942, the ship participated in the Aleutian Islands Campaign the following month and in…

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Japanese Aircraft Carrier Jun'yō (隼鷹, Peregrine Falcon) moored at Sasebo, Japan, circa fall 1945.

"The original caption dates the photograph on November 1, 1945, but it may have been taken somewhat earlier."

NHHC: USMC 150350, 80-G-701429

"View of the island of the Japanese Aircraft Carrier Jun'yō, seen from the aft flight deck, at Sasebo, Japan, on October 19, 1945.

Note the Type 3 radar antenna on the ship's mainmast."

NHHC: SC 218543

Colorized by Steven Walker: link

"Japanese submarine HA-230 beached at Sasebo, Japan, on October 19, 1945. Three Japanese aircraft carriers and several Kaibokan escort ships are in the background. The carriers are Jun'yō (隼鷹) (center, closest to the camera); Ibuki (伊吹) (partially visible beyond Junyo and Kasagi (partially visible at right). Note the small craft in the foreground, with a registration number painted in its interior."

NHHC: SC 218540

"View looking aft from high on the island of the Japanese Aircraft Carrier Jun'yō (隼鷹, "Peregrine Falcon") at Sasebo, Japan. U.S. Army soldiers of the 32nd Division are on the flight deck. Note the fore-and-aft flight deck planking; the device on the landing signal platform; the Type 3 radar antenna on the mainmast and radio-direction-finder loop in the foreground. Several HA-201 class submarines are on the beach in the distance. The submarine directly off Junyō's stern is Ha-230."

Date: October 19, 1945

NHHC: SC 218542

Japanese Aircraft Carrier Jun'yō (隼鷹, "Peregrine Falcon") anchored at Sasebo, Japan.

Date: September 26, 1945.

Note: Two HA-201 class small submarines are alongside in the third photo. Also of note, her flight deck planking is laid fore-and-aft unlike the American carriers with their planking going from port to starboard.

"Jun'yō was attacked by the submarines USS Sea Devil (SS-400), USS Plaice (SS-390) and USS Redfish (SS- 395) early in the morning of December 9, 1944. She was hit by three torpedoes that flooded several compartments and killed 19 men. These gave her a 10°–12° list to starboard, but she was able to proceed on one engine. She reached Sasebo the following day and began repairs on December 18.

The repairs were abandoned in March 1945 for lack of materials and the ship was moved from the dock to Ebisu Bay, Sasebo, on April 1. Efforts to camouflage the ship began on April 23 and she was reclassified as a guard ship on June 20. Jun'yō's armament was ordered removed on August 5 and the ship was surrendered to the Allies on September 2. An American technical team evaluated the ship's condition on October 8 and deemed her a constructive total loss. Jun'yō was stricken from the Navy List on November 30 and scrapped between June 1946 and August 1947 by the Sasebo Ship Company."

NNAM.1996.488.037.002

NHHC: USMC 136995, USMC 136996, USMC 136997, USMC 136998

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