kantai kessen造句

• Japanese planners refused to abandon the " kantai kessen " doctrine, but shifted their emphasis from battleships to the carriers.
• The decisive battle was fought not between battleships as envisioned under the " kantai kessen ", but by naval aviation.
• The Japanese had been seeking to engage the Americans in a decisive battle, the Kantai Kessen, that would enable them to win the war.
• Land-based fighter and bomber aircraft on these islands controlled the Marianas campaign, the IJN concluded that the " Kantai Kessen " could be delayed no longer.
• From 1914 to 1916, he was Commandant of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, continuing to influence its curriculum heavily towards the " kantai kessen " theory which he had helped create.
• Since control of the Marianas would bring American strategic bombers in range of the Japanese home islands, the IJN decided it was time for the long-awaited " Kantai Kessen " ( decisive battle ).
• However, conservative supporters of " kantai kessen ", such as Admiral Osami Nagano, dominated within the senior staff of the Japanese Navy and the " kantai kessen " concept remained the primary Japanese naval strategy into the Pacific War.
• However, conservative supporters of " kantai kessen ", such as Admiral Osami Nagano, dominated within the senior staff of the Japanese Navy and the " kantai kessen " concept remained the primary Japanese naval strategy into the Pacific War.
• A strong believer in the " Kantai kessen " naval doctrine of a decisive battle, Koyanagi criticized the battle plans for the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944, as the plan called for concentrating Japanese attacks on enemy transports rather than warships.
• The IJN still considered the First Air Fleet an integral component in the Combined Fleet's " Kantai Kessen " or " decisive battle " task force centered on battleships . " Akagi " was designated as the flagship for the First Air Fleet, a role the ship retained until her sinking 14 months later.
• As the war situation deteriorated for the Japanese and the territories controlled by the " Area Fleets " fell one after another to the United States Navy, the Imperial General Headquarters and the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff acted to force the American fleet into a " decisive battle " in the Philippines per the " kantai kessen " philosophy.
• The decisive victory of the Japanese fleet over the Imperial Russian Navy at the Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War had validated the doctrine in the eyes of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff, and future naval procurement and deployment was centered on refinements of the " decisive victory ", or " kantai kessen " doctrine.