Japanese destroyer Tachikaze
- Japanese destroyer Tachikaze
"Tachikaze" ( "Wind from a Swinging Sword", or "Wind From a Sword Stroke") [ cite web
url= http://www.combinedfleet.com/ijnnames.htm
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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.
"Tachikaze" spent most of World War II escorting convoys in the southwest Pacific.
On 4 February 1944, returning to Truk Lagoon from Rabaul, "Tachikaze" went hard aground on Kuop Atoll, and remained stranded there despite efforts to free her. During the Allied nihongo|attack on Truk|トラック島空襲|Torakku-tō Kūshū on 17–18 February, "Tachikaze" suffered heavy strafing followed by a torpedo hit in the engine room, which led to the ship sinking by the stern off Kuop (coord|07|03|N|151|56|E |region:FM-TRK |display=title,inline).
On 31 March 1944, "Tachikaze" was removed from the Navy List.
References
*cite web
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title= IJN "Tachikaze": Tabular Record of Movement
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year= 1997 |month= | work= Long Lancers | publisher= Combinedfleet.com
accessdate= 2008-06-11
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