jap big guns in may 1942

 ABSTRACT: locate nipon=japanese big battleships during May 1942 then summarize the story of each. two lists one grouping by locations and a second list to find the warship using its name in alphabet order.

  list 1: grouped by 3 locations:

   west from peninsula of nan rr: 4 big battleships 

HARUNA then, april 1942, in sea between ganges rr and nan rr. it sank july '45. last?

HIEI with haruna west from nan rr. it sank nov' '42.

KIRISHIMA with hiei by nan rr=3. it sank nov' '42

KONGO  then by nan=4, it sank nov' '44. [if game four not enuf for a marker. same for brits, no marker unless six battleships see midway group].

 by midway isle: 1+5=6 big battleships

FUSO sea north from finkol mr searching for u.s. warplane carriers. it sank oct' '44.

HYUGA then by midway isle,  it sank july '45

ISE aided fuso then with hyuga, by midway isle=2.  it sank july '45

MUTSU by midway isle=3. it sank june '43.

NAGATO by midway isle=4.  got damaged july '45. scrap?

++YAMASHIRO [hid info but based on date] by midway=5. it sank oct' '44

despite navy base at truk in caroline=finkol mr, these were near midway and not sailing from truk. [if game then put one marker for six beside u.s. midway, controlling its sea, but better no marker for this ship. include in submarine marker of wake, kuz near enuf and others included in transport markers].

  group of "not battle": 3. only listed in alphabetic. [data lost when i forgot and overwrote a clipboard before pasting, sorry.]

  LIST 2 by order of alphabet: japan had a battleship named fuso WHERE was it in may 1942? bombers bombd tokyo in april 1942 so fuso responded searching for the ships warplane-carriers that carry them.

FUSO sea north from finkol mr searching for u.s. warplane carriers. it sank oct' '44.

HARUNA then sea between ganges rr and nan rr. it sank july '45 near end of war.

HIEI then at sea with haruna so 2 big gunships west from nan rr. it sank nov' '42.

HYUGA then by midway isle,  it sank july '45

ISE aided fuso then with hyuga, by midway isle=2.  it sank july '45

KIRISHIMA with hiei by nan rr=3. it sank nov' '42

KONGO  nan=4, it sank nov' '44.

MUSASHI by fuji mr then still building. category "after".  it sank oct' '44

MUTSU by midway isle=3. it sank june '43.

NAGATO by midway isle=4.  got damaged july '45. scrap?

SETTSU rested not battle. got damaged july '45.

YAMASHIRO [hid info but based on date] by midway=5. it sank oct' '44

YAMATO symbol so no battles. by fuji mr.  it sank april '45.

total japan had 13 big battleships 3 not battle in may 1942 for various reasons. 

four west from nan rr. six by midway isle. [if game only one marker fr six by midway not by finkol mr, kuz 4 not enuf for a marker and 3 category "not battle" by fuji mr.

   endnotes: my interest was grabd by a game that put a "battleship marker" near the finkol mountain region where is that?

knowing the physical geography of the world means knowing the location of major rivers and mountains.

a game map that shows the isles arund japan using the names of major mountains and rivers can serve both to identify the place by the REAL naturaal physical thing and teach where that peak or river is.

for example japan is famous... so calling it fuji mountain region shows both the location of fuji mt' and identifies the place using the mountain.

the group of islands to the south called philipines has a major river "magat" rr.

the group of isles east from magat rr have a peak named "finkol" so we can learn the location of the peak and also identify the isles by finkol mr.

so finkol mr which is a group of isles east from magat rr had a marker.

a study of the war indicates that that the ships were in different places so the  markers for warships DIFFER from that time. only the land division was based on "spring 1942" for example befre spring japan was invading "boibi" mr but in spring captured many isles in the isle group of the boibi mr north from cook mr and east froom fly rr so its color japan is accurate however the fly rr was not invaded by japan yet until june and they did not control "new guinea" the fly rr... so the map does not accurately show the land division of that time either so neither the warships nor the land is accurate but the extension of control is near.

another flaw is "french" territory in the nile continent marked as british yet truly that land SERVED axis nazis when frenh SHOT  at their liberators from morocco instead of rejoicing that the occupiers would be chased away and rebelling to get freedom and not FIRING at the liberators who came to chase the occupiers away to free the french but sadly the french saw the allies and  FIRED at the u.s. insted of at their nazi occupiers dumb french... as i mentioned in the study of french battleships and also from french land so truly axis and not granting brits ten production potential instead granting a bit of pp to nazi also not ten. french served nazi in atlas mr and niger rr also isle madagascar was axis nazi until brits attacked in end of 1942. but now we return to jap big guns... 

knowing that the game that claims spring 1942 SIMILAR only to land division but even land wrong and also NOT mimic warship location so instead WHERE??

i will assempble the data for you.

perhaps somebody will use this assembled data to make an accurate game that will also use physical geography to identify places as above to learn the peaks and rivers as above. fly rr boibi mr magat rr finkol mr and more.