Vice-Admiral Jisaburō Ozawa was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Ozawa held several important commands at sea throughout the duration of the conflict.
Ozawa as Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Expeditionary Force, November 16, 1941, at Saigon.
Ozawa as a Vice Admiral, 1940s
Isoroku Yamamoto (far left) and Jinichi Kusaka (center left) supervise air operations from Rabaul during Operation I-Go in April 1943
The 3rd Fleet was a fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), which was created, and subsequently disbanded on six separate occasions and revived on five separate occasions.
Image: Kichisaburō Nomura