If I can recongize this stuff correctly,

1) Pearl Harbor buildup (KidoButai traveling North Pacific)

2) Pearl Harbor

3) Phillipines invasion

4) Battle of the Java Sea (Sendai and DD complement on torpedo run)

4) Ikazuchi picking up Allied survivors (extended hand) of HMS Encounter and USS Pope.

5) Midway obviously, RIP CarDiv 1 & 2 (Hiryuu being the last one to die after launching her strike), scuttled by escorts.

6) Following day I-168 sinks Yorktown, Mikuma and Mogami attacked by aircraft with the Mikuma sunk.

7) Battle of Cape Esperance, CruDiv6 ambushed, loss of majority of cruisers and Fubuki.

8) 1st Battle of Guadalcanal. IJN fleet crossed USN T. Loss of Hiei and Akatsuki as searchlights drew American fire. Yuudachi earns her name. Hiei scuttled.

9) 2nd Battle of Guadalcanal, Kirishima and Atago lost to USN battleships North Dakota and Washington.

10) Ikazuchi sunk by USS Harder April 13, 1944, May 14th, same year, Inazuma sunk by torpedoes from USS Bonefish, Hibiki rescues survivors.

11) Yamashiro/Fusou lost in Surigao Straight (in a fucking huge curbstomp of a battle), DD Shigure shown earlier being comforted by BB, one of the few survivors.

12) Battle of Cape Engano, last of IJN's carrier forces used as bait to draw Halsey away from landing forces. Zuikaku and other carriers fight to the last (she had run out of planes) referenced in her lines in game.

13) Shimakaze sunk at Ormoc Bay by aircraft.

14) Urakaze and Kongou torpedoed and sunk.

15) Yamato's final mission, Yukikaze being one of the few survivors.

16) Haruna, Hyuga and others sunk at their moorings during Air Raids on Kure.

17) Hosho survived the war and used as transport.

18) Kitakami, used as repair tender for repatriation transports.

19) Nagato used in Bikini Atoll tests, survives Able, lost after Baker.