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1st Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy)

IJN fleet (1903–1944)

Field	Value
unit_name	1st Fleet
dates	28 December 1903 – 25 February 1944
country	Empire of Japan
branch
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notable_commanders	Heihachiro Togo
Kōichi Fujii
Osami Nagano
Isoroku Yamamoto
Chuichi Nagumo

Kōichi Fujii Osami Nagano Isoroku Yamamoto Chuichi Nagumo The 1st Fleet was the main battleship fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

History

First established on 28 December 1903, the IJN 1st Fleet was created during the Russo-Japanese War when the Imperial General Headquarters divided the Readiness Fleet into a mobile strike force of cruisers and destroyers to pursue the Imperial Russian Navy's Vladivostok-based cruiser squadron (the Imperial Japanese Navys 2nd Fleet), while the remaining bulk of the Japanese fleet (the IJN 1st Fleet) continued to blockade Port Arthur in hopes of luring the battleships of the Russian Pacific Fleet out into a classic line-of-battle confrontation. The two fleets were combined into the Combined Fleet for the final Battle of Tsushima. The decisive victory of the Japanese fleet over the Imperial Russian Navy at the Battle of Tsushima validated the doctrine of the "decisive victory", or kantai kessen as stipulated by naval theorists such as Alfred Thayer Mahan and Satō Tetsutarō in the eyes of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff, and future naval procurement and deployment was centered on refinements of this doctrine. The Mahanian objective was to build a fleet in being, a naval force kept deliberately in strategic reserve, as secondary forces based on cruisers and destroyers waged a campaign of attrition against an approaching enemy, who would then be destroyed in a climactic final battle similar to the Battle of Tsushima. As a result of this doctrine, although individual ships and task forces were dispatched on occasion for specific combat operations, the main force in the Imperial Japanese Navy was mostly held in reserve from the time of its inception until near the end of World War II.

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References

Peattie & Evans, ''Kaigun''{{page needed. (December 2019)
Willmont, ''After Midway: Japanese Naval Strategy 1942-45'', pp. 177–199
Evans, ''Kaigun''{{page needed. (December 2019)
Wendel, Axis History Database

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