Maikaze (舞風, "Dancing Wind") was one of 19 Kagerō-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during the 1930s
Yukikaze (雪風; "Snowy Wind") was a Kagerō-class destroyer in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. She was the only member of her class to survive the war, and did so without suffering any major damage. She participated in the...
The Kagerō-class destroyers (陽炎型駆逐艦, Kagerō-gata Kuchikukan) were a class of nineteen 1st Class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during the 1930s, and operated by them during the Pacific War, where all but one were lost. They were...
The following is a list of destroyers and 1st class (steam) torpedo boats of Japan grouped by class or design. In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet,...
Isokaze (磯風; "Wind on the Beach") was one of 19 Kagerō-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during the 1930s. Isokaze escorted the aircraft carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor, before remaining with the Kido Butai for the first...
Arashi (嵐; "Storm") was a Kagerō-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. After a short time of peacetime duties, Arashi escorted invasion convoys for the Philippines and Dutch East Indies at the start of the Pacific War for Japan. In March of...
Operation Hailstone was a large-scale United States Navy air and surface attack on Truk Lagoon on 17–18 February 1944, conducted as part of the American offensive drive against the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II.
Nowaki (野分; "Autumn Gale") was a Kagerō-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy commissioned in April 1941. She saw an extremely successful career during her service in WW2, either helping to sink or capture 15 ships during the war: including...
Yamagumo (山雲, Mountain Cloud) was the sixth of ten Asashio-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the mid-1930s under the Circle Two Supplementary Naval Expansion Program (Maru Ni Keikaku). Immediately into the war, Yamagumo was...
Shōkaku (Japanese: 翔鶴; meaning "Soaring Crane") was the lead ship of her class of two aircraft carriers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) shortly before the Pacific War. Along with her sistership Zuikaku, she took part in several key naval...
