a larger force on multiple occasions to counter the threat of American carrier strikes, but did not actively participate in a single battle. In 1944, Haruna was an escort during the Battle of the Philippine Sea and fought American surface vessels off Samar during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. She was the only one of the four battleships in her class to survive 1944. Haruna remained at Kure throughout 1945, where she was sunk by aircraft of Task Force 38 on 28 July 1945, after taking nine bomb hits at her moorings. She was subsequently raised and broken up for scrap in 1946. Notes Footnotes Citations General references Boyle, David (1998). World War II in Photographs. London. Rebo Productions. Jackson, Robert (editor) (2008). 101 Great Warships. London. Amber Books. Jackson, Robert (2000). The World's Great Battleships. Brown Books. McCurtie, Francis (1989) [1945]. Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II. London: Bracken Books. Moore, John (1990) [1919]. Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I. London: Studio Editions. Schom, Alan (2004). The Eagle and the Rising Sun: The Japanese-American War, 1941–1943. Norton & Company. Steinberg, Rafael (1980) Return to the Philippines. Time-Life Books Inc. Swanston, Alexander & Swanston, Malcolm (2007). The Historical Atlas of World War II. London: Cartographica Press Ltd. Willmott, H.P. & Keegan, John [1999] (2002). The Second World War in the Far East. Smithsonian Books. . Battleship classes Battlecruiser classes Kongo-class battleship