Talk:Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze (1939)

Other successes by destroyer Amatsukaze

In the spring of 1942, during the Dutch East Indies campaign, Amatsukaze attacked the already damaged submarine USS Perch on the surface with gunfire, and observed hits. Perch submerged and escapted, but the next night was caught on the surface while attempting repairs by two different Japanese destroyers, and was scuttled.

During the Carrier battle of the Eastern Solomons the captain of Amatsukaze sent one of the most unusual messages ever sent by a Japanese vessel during the war, when he sent a signal to the carrier Ryujo asking them why there was no combat air patrol. Ryujo then readied zero fighters, but was attacked and sunk by aircraft before they could take off.

Amatsukaze and another destroyer raided the atoll of Ndeni, far south of Guadalcanal and used by PBY flying boats, two weeks prior to the carrier battle of Santa Cruz, but the atoll did not have any planes there during the surface raid.

At the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in November 1942, Amatsukaze first sank the destroyer USS Barton with torpedoes, then turned north and a short time later hit the light cruiser USS Juneau with one torpedo, crippling the ship. Juneau was sunk the next day by Japanese submarine I-26. Amatsukaze also hit the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco with gunfire during the battle. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Azeh (talk • contribs) 01:18, 25 February 2013 (UTC)