Kriegsmarine and the aircraft carrier? (1 Viewer)

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The British bought thousands of Japanese rifles for training during WW I.

The Japanese also assisted in flushing out the German squadron under Maximilian Graf von Spee at Tsingtao, althought their capture of that port was probably borne out of self interest as it was in eradicating the German threat in the region. Nevertheless, Japanese warships escorted the first ANZAC convoys to Egypt through the Indian Ocean; I've seen photographs of the Japanese armoured cruiser Ibuki in New Zealand waters during the war prior to setting sail with the convoy.

The British were to later mutter under their breaths at the lack of military assistance by their erstwhile allys in hunting the German surface raiders active in the Pacific and also in contributing to the war effort overall, particularly since Japan insisted in some of the spoils of war, the German cruiser Augsburg was allocated to the Japanese post war.
 

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