Imperial Japanese Navy fuel
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Imperial Japanese Navy fuel

World War II, Imperial Japanese Navy, Diesel fuel, Fushun, French Indochina

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. While other navies used highly refined burner oil, in the last stages of World War II the Imperial Japanese Navy was directly using high quality crude oil obtained from the captured East Indian colonial possessions of the Netherlands and France. While quite functional as a boiler fuel, this crude carried a hazard; as the lighter fractions had not been distilled out they formed highly flammable vapors within the warships' fuel tanks. This would often lead to a tank com...