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Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War Eric Lacroix, Linton Wells II
Publisher: Chatham Publishing

He co-authored Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War, which was published in 1997. The Japanese had swept across the Pacific and the Indian Oceans and decimated every Allied Naval forces that stood in their way. It is highly researched, very detailed, excellently argued, and completely wrong in it's conclusions. 1) it's flatly not true that in the first year of the war, all major Pacific battles were fought by carriers and there were no capital ship gun duels. The Belleau Wood was part of a task force made up of several carriers, cruisers and destroyers. His hobbies include history, the relationship between policy and technology, scuba diving, and flying. Kreigsmarine: 1 battle-cruiser. It is a comprehensive analysis of the background to the despatch of the British Pacific Fleet to the final months of the war against Japan. This included 6 battleship, 35 aircraft carriers, 23 cruisers, 42 submarines, and over 200 destroyers and escorts. Imperial Japanese Navy : 2 battle-cruisers, 16 heavy cruisers, 10 light cruisers, 1 aircraft carrier, 44 destroyers, 1 sea plan tender & 3 submarines. Off the coast of Japan) at the time of the Japanese surrender was about 700 ships (with more en-route from Europe).