Destroyers: Kagerō Class

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Brian James
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Destroyers: Kagerō Class

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Launch day for Kagerō Class Destroyer Isokaze at Sasebo Naval Arsenal on June 19th 1939......On April 7th 1945, Isokaze escorted the Battleship Yamato from the Inland Sea on her Operation Ten-Go attack on the Allied forces on Okinawa. She was struck by aircraft of Task Force 58 and scuttled by the Destroyer Yukikaze with gunfire 150 miles southwest of Nagasaki. Of those on board, 20 were killed and the rest were rescued by other ships. Yamato's other escorts, including Hamakaze, Asashimo and Yamato herself, were sunk afterwards, Asashimo losing all hands during the encounter.
Isokaze's wreckage was located in an underwater survey in May 2016, but the news was not made public until February 10th 2018.
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