Book contents
- Yukikaze’s War
- Yukikaze’s War
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- A Note on Sources
- Chapter 1 Divine Ships of a Bluewater Navy
- Chapter 2 Torpedoes, Destroyers, and Samurai of the Seas
- Chapter 3 Oil Empire and Japan’s Southern Advance
- Chapter 4 Conquest of the South Seas
- Chapter 5 Escorting Catastrophe at Midway
- Chapter 6 Barroom Brawl at Guadalcanal
- Chapter 7 Defending the Solomon Sea and Bismarck Barrier
- Chapter 8 The Mariana Islands and the Collapse of Japan’s Defensive Sphere
- Chapter 9 The Leyte Theater
- Chapter 10 Dangerous Homewaters and Shinano Destroyed
- Chapter 11 Yamato and the Specter of History
- Chapter 12 Surrender and the Enduring Dangers of Yukikaze’s Haunt
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
Chapter 10 - Dangerous Homewaters and Shinano Destroyed
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 June 2024
- Yukikaze’s War
- Yukikaze’s War
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- A Note on Sources
- Chapter 1 Divine Ships of a Bluewater Navy
- Chapter 2 Torpedoes, Destroyers, and Samurai of the Seas
- Chapter 3 Oil Empire and Japan’s Southern Advance
- Chapter 4 Conquest of the South Seas
- Chapter 5 Escorting Catastrophe at Midway
- Chapter 6 Barroom Brawl at Guadalcanal
- Chapter 7 Defending the Solomon Sea and Bismarck Barrier
- Chapter 8 The Mariana Islands and the Collapse of Japan’s Defensive Sphere
- Chapter 9 The Leyte Theater
- Chapter 10 Dangerous Homewaters and Shinano Destroyed
- Chapter 11 Yamato and the Specter of History
- Chapter 12 Surrender and the Enduring Dangers of Yukikaze’s Haunt
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Chapter 10 explores the retreat of the Imperial Japanese Navy after Leyte Gulf toward the home and the sinking of the battleship Kongo off Taiwan. Once in home waters, Yukikaze escorted the super-carrier Shinano when she was torpedoed and sunk by U.S. Navy submarine Archerfish.
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- Yukikaze's WarThe Unsinkable Japanese Destroyer and World War II in the Pacific, pp. 212 - 233Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024