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Photo # NH 90512:  Japanese battleship Kongo after her 1936-37 modernization

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- JAPANESE NAVY SHIPS --

Kongo (Battlecruiser and Battleship, 1913-1944) --
Views taken in 1929-1944


This page features views of the Japanese battleship Kongo taken after her 1929-31 and 1936-37 modernizations.

For other pictures of Kongo, taken in 1929 and before, see:

  • Kongo (Battlecruiser and Battleship, 1913-1944).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    The following photographs show Kongo after her 1929-31 modernization, with two smokestacks:

    Photo #: NH 44617

    Kongo
    (Japanese battleship, 1913)

    Photograph taken after her 1929-31 reconstruction.
    Japanese language text at bottom left is a warning against reproduction of the photo. That at right reads (from right to left): "Large battleship Kongo, Haruna, Kirishima". All three ships had a similar appearance during this period.

    The original print was received from the Board of Economic Warfare, circa 1942.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 525 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 90506

    Kongo
    (Japanese battleship, 1913)

    Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken after her 1929-31 reconstruction.

    The original print came from Office of Naval Intelligence files.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 48KB; 740 x 350 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 90509

    Kongo
    (Japanese battleship, 1913)

    Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken in 1934.

    The original print came from Office of Naval Intelligence files.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 29KB; 740 x 240 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 90510

    Kongo
    (Japanese battleship, 1913)

    Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken in 1933, after her 1929-31 reconstruction.

    The original print came from Office of Naval Intelligence files.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 50KB; 740 x 285 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 90507

    Kongo
    (Japanese battleship, 1913)

    Underway, after her 1929-31 reconstruction.
    This is a halftone reproduction of a photograph.

    The original print came from Office of Naval Intelligence files.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 63KB; 740 x 465 pixels

     


    The photographs below show Kongo after her 1936-37 modernization, in the basic configuration she had during World War II:

    Photo #: NH 90512

    Kongo
    (Japanese battleship, 1913)

    Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken after the ship's 1936-37 modernization.

    The original print came from Office of Naval Intelligence files.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 350 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 80898

    Kongo
    (Japanese battleship, 1913)

    Off Amoy, China, in October 1938.
    Photographed from USS Pillsbury (DD-227).

    The original print came from Office of Naval Intelligence files.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 33KB; 740 x 250 pixels

     
    Photo #: 80-G-231831

    Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 1944


    Japanese Carrier Division Three under attack by Task Force 38 planes, 20 June 1944. The battleship in the lower center is either Haruna or Kongo. The carrier Chiyoda is at right.
    Photographed from a USS Bunker Hill (CV-17 plane.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 625 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     

    For other pictures of Kongo, taken in 1929 and before, see:

  • Kongo (Battlecruiser and Battleship, 1913-1944).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    30 December 2001