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CA Furutaka
Imperial Japanese Navy heavy cruiser
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| Class | Laid down, Shipyard | Launched | Commissioned | Disabled and Why | |
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| Furutaka | 1922/12/05 Micubishi | 1925/02/25 | 1926/03/31 | 1942/10/12
sunk | |
| Namesake: "Older Falcon" ("starší sokol") - a mountain | |||||
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WW II combat actions:
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| From | Till | Operation | Force | Action | Source |
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| 41 | 1stFlt/CruDiv6 | ||||
| 41/12/08 | 41/12/11 | SoSeFor/GuamLandGrp/CruDiv6 | land Guam | ||
| 41/12/21 | 41/12/28 | 2ndWakeInvForCruDiv6 | land Wake | 81 | |
| 42/03/08 | 42/03/10 | CovFor/CruDiv6 | land Lae/Salamaua | 99 | |
| 42/05 | CovFor/CruDiv6 | xCoralS | |||
| 42/08/08 | 42/08/09 | 8thFlt/CruDiv6 | xSavo | ||
| 42/08/17 | 42/08/19 | CruDiv6 | sail from Rabaul to Rekata | 99 | |
| 42/08/21 | 42/08/26 | KI | CloSupCovFor/CruDiv6 | xEasSol | |
| 42/08/23 | KI | CloSupCovFor/CruDiv6 | attacked by PBY (VP-23) | 85 | |
| 42/08/26 | Shortland | ||||
| 42/10/11 | 42/10/12 | CruDiv6 | xEsper | ||
| 42/10/12 | CruDiv6 | xEsper -sunk(Salt Lake City, Boise) (09-02S, 159-34E) | 8 85 | ||