Japanese Forces

IJN casualties

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Japanese Imperial ships sunk during WWII, Google Earth .The Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II, at the beginning of the Pacific War in December 1941, was the third most powerful navy in the world. By July 1945, all but one of it's capital ships had been sunk in raids by the United States Navy. At the end of the war, the IJN had lost 334 warships and 300,386 officers and men. taken from fb/WW2 Archives