Heavy cruiser IJN Mikuma was completed on 29 August 1935. Mikuma was part of Rear Adm. Takeo Kurita’s Close Support Group under Vice Adm. Nobutake Kondo’s Midway Occupation Force. Mikuma and three other heavy cruisers were to bombard Midway o
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