Japanese destroyer Yakaze
- Japanese destroyer Yakaze
"Yakaze" ( "Wind of an Arrow's Flight") [cite web
url= http://www.combinedfleet.com/ijnnames.htm
title= Japanese Warship Names
publisher= Combinedfleet.com
accessdate= 2008-05-23 ] was a "Minekaze"-class destroyer, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy immediately following World War I. Advanced for their time, these ships served as first-line destroyers throughout the 1920s and 1930s until gradually replaced by newer types.
Obsolescent by World War II, "Yakaze" was converted into a target ship in April 1942. She was stricken from the Navy list on 20 July 1942, but continued to serve as a wireless target ship till the end of the war.
References
*cite web
url= http://www.combinedfleet.com/yakaze_t.htm
title= IJN "Yakaze": Tabular Record of Movement
last= Nevitt | first= Allyn D.
year= 1997 |month= | work= Long Lancers | publisher= Combinedfleet.com
accessdate= 2008-05-23
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