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Ships · Japan · 1940-1945

Yukikaze

destroyer

A Kagero-class destroyer nicknamed the 'miracle ship' for surviving the entire war essentially undamaged, Yukikaze fought at Guadalcanal, sinking the American destroyer USS Laffey and helping sink USS Cushing, and went on to fight at Leyte Gulf and escort the doomed battleship Yamato on her final sortie. She survived that too, one of the very few major Japanese warships still afloat at the surrender.

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crew~240
armament6x 12.7cm guns, 8x torpedo tubes
displacement2,490 tons (full load)
speed35.5 knots

Pacific

Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Yukikaze.
Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Yukikaze.Shizuo Fukui · Public domain · source
Destroyer Yukikaze after the war, 1945-1947. Possibly in Kure. (From Shizuo Fukui's Photo History of all Japanese Navy Ships, Vol. 2, Bestsellers, 1994)
Destroyer Yukikaze after the war, 1945-1947. Possibly in Kure. (From Shizuo Fukui's Photo History of all Japanese Navy Ships, Vol. 2, Bestsellers, 1994)Unknown · Public domain · source
Removed caption read: Photo # NH 73052 Japanese destroyer Yukikaze underway, January 1940 Yukikaze (Japanese destroyer, 1940) Underway off Sasebo, Japan, in January 1940. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Donation
Removed caption read: Photo # NH 73052 Japanese destroyer Yukikaze underway, January 1940 Yukikaze (Japanese destroyer, 1940) Underway off Sasebo, Japan, in January 1940. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Donation · Public domain · source

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