Orion was an auxiliary cruiser of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine which operated as a merchant raider in World War II. Blohm & Voss built her in Hamburg in 1930–31 as the cargo ship Kurmark. The navy requ
The HAPAG freighter Nordmark
Nakajima E8N
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The Nakajima E8N was a ship-borne catapult-launched reconnaissance seaplane designed and produced by the Japanese aviation manufacturer Nakajima Aircraft Company. Flown by the Imperial Japanese Navy A
German auxiliary cruiser Orion
…and five ships off Nauru, before going their separate ways in the new year. The German naval attaché to Japan, Vice-Admiral Paul Wenneker, bought a Nakajima E8N float plane early in 1941. It was dispatched on board the supply ship Münsterland to rendezvous with Orion at the Maug Islands in the Northern Marianas…
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An IJN E8N flying by the Japanese aircraft carriers Sōryū and Ryujo, 1938
A E8N alighting the ocean