Examples of using Chikuma in English and their translations into Serbian
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That voice Chikuma Koshiro!
The Japanese heavy cruiser Chikuma.
Chikuma was removed from the navy list on 20 April 1945.
East Indies Chikuma.
At 1105, Chikuma was attacked by five TBMs from USS Kitkun Bay.
Four days later,floatplanes from Tone and Chikuma took part on the strike against Tjilatjap.
Chikuma then directed the submarine I-168 to find and attack the Yorktown the following morning.
Seven floatplanes from Tone and Chikuma were launched to locate the American fleet.
Chikuma and Tone were then detached to support Vice Admiral Boshiro Hosogaya's Aleutian invasion force.
At 14:25 a Japanese scout aircraft from the cruiser Chikuma sighted the U.S. carriers.
Chikuma inflicted severe damage on Heermann, but was soon attacked by four TBM Avenger torpedo-bombers.
Back at Kure on 12 December, Chikuma gained additional 25-mm AA guns, bringing its total to 20.
On 15 March 1943 Rear Admiral Kishi Fukuji assumed command of CruDiv 8, and Chikuma was ordered back to Truk.
On 5 April 1942, Chikuma was part of a major task force which launched 315 aircraft against British-held Colombo, Ceylon.
At the end of 1941, Tone was assigned to CruDiv 8 with her sister ship, Chikuma, and was thus present during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Chikuma and Tone later participated in the Raid on Port Darwin, Australia on 19 February, destroying 15 aircraft and sinking 11 ships.
Hits from Hiei, Tone and dive bombers from the aircraft carriers Sōryū and Akagi finally stopped Edsall,which was then finished off by Chikuma.
That day, 7 December 1941,Tone and Chikuma each launched one Aichi E13A1"Jake" floatplane for a final weather reconnaissance over Oahu.
She was extensively employed during World War II in conjunction with an aircraft carrier task force, oras part of a cruiser squadron with her sister ship,"Chikuma".
From December 1914 to February 1915, Chikuma and the protected cruiser Yahagi patrolled off the northern coast of Queensland, Australia.
In response, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto ordered Vice Admiral Chūichi Nagumo's Third Fleet, with aircraft carriers Shōkaku, Zuikaku, Ryūjō, battleships Hiei, Kirishima, cruisers Kumano,Suzuya, Chikuma, Tone and Nagara and three destroyers to reinforce Admiral Tanaka in Jintsū.
On 4 March, Chikuma sank the 5,412-ton Dutch merchant Enggano(which had earlier been damaged by a floatplane from the cruiser Takao).
From 27 February, Ōi, together with light cruiser Kinu and destroyers Uranami, Amagiri and Shikinami,was assigned to escort the heavy cruisers Tone, Chikuma and Aoba for commerce raiding in the Indian Ocean, but in general remained in the vicinity of Singapore and Balikpapan and Tarakan in Borneo until the end of April.
Through October, Chikuma and Tone patrolled north of the Solomon Islands, waiting word of recapture of Henderson Field by the Japanese.
While refueling at Rabaul on 5 November 1943, Chikuma and its task force were attacked by 97 planes from the carriers Saratoga, and Princeton.
Two other floatplanes from Chikuma continued to observe the heavily damaged Yorktown through the night, during which time one plane and crew were lost.
From July to November, Chikuma was engaged in making troop transport runs to Rabaul, and to patrols of the Marshall Islands in unsuccessful pursuit of the American fleet.
On 4 June,Tone and Chikuma each launched two Aichi E13A1"Jake" long-range reconnaissance floatplanes to search out 300 miles(480 km) for American carriers.
After ferrying army troops to Okinawa, Chikuma was reassigned back to Singapore in July, serving as flagship for CruDiv 4 while Atago was under repairs.
Refit completed by 1 February, Chikuma returned to Singapore on 13 February and Batavia on 15 March after a month of raiding commerce in the Indian Ocean.