Kure Naval District (呉鎮守府, Kure chinjufu) was the second of four main administrative districts of the pre-war Imperial Japanese Navy. Its territory included...

Imperial Japanese Navy. The Kure Naval District was established at Kure, Hiroshima in 1889, as the second of the naval districts responsible for the defense...

Kure is part of ancient Aki Province, and the port of Kure was an important seaport for Hiroshima Domain in the Edo period. The Kure Naval District was...

The Kure Naval Base (Japanese: 呉基地, Hepburn: Kure Kichi), also simply known as the JMSDF Kure Naval Base, is a group of ports and land facilities of the...

School and the Officer Candidates School, it is home to the local Kure Naval District, LCAC training facilities, and Self-Defense Force oil storage. In...

Navy's Special Naval Landing Forces. Both units were formed at the Kure Naval District. The first iteration of the unit saw action in China in the late...

Hiroba – 1/10 scale of the Yamato History of Kure – as the shipbuilding, port city and the Kure Naval District Large objects exhibition room - containing...

The 5th Kure Special Naval Landing Force (5th Kure SNLF) was a naval infantry battalion of the Imperial Japanese Navy's Special Naval Landing Forces....

Japan, where he was given command of the Sasebo Naval District. He then transferred to the Kure Naval District on 21 June 1943. From October 1943 to February...

the attack on Pearl Harbor, Toyoda was Commander-in-Chief of the Kure Naval District. Toyoda was strongly opposed to the war with the United States, which...