Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-28069733-20170521154728/@comment-1637496-20170526194149

Hasemiru wrote: (A document is very important, doesn't matter if it isn't from the USN or the ONI as long as it contributes to find a middle ground to classify all of them into a main category, unless the Kancolle STAFF starts being specific with other classes, that's another story).

Documents are important if they're relevant, USN and ONI official material is certainly more relevant than anything written by Japanese bureaucrats for SCAP usage, here we could end up picking EK used by the Russians going by this logic; anyway, if any document is "very important" here's the classification table by LCDR Shizuo Fukui, who later became a famous historian, for his "Japanese Naval Vessels at the End of World War II" report, a compilation written in April 1947 for SCAP usage:



It uses DE as corresponding American classification of kaibokan.