Yukikaze’s war: The unsinkable Japanese destroyer and World War II in the Pacific

2024/12/18 by Samuel P. Porter · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Asian American and Pacific Histories #Japanese History and Culture #Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

paper · doi:10.1080/18692729.2024.2434418

openalex publication_date 2024/12/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/14

Abstract

By the time of Japan’s surrender on 15 August 1945, only five of the original 177 Imperial Japanese Navy’s (IJN) destroyers remained afloat. One of these was a Kagero-class destroyer named the Yuki...

Discussions

• S. Porter reviews Brett Walker’s Yukikaze’s War @cambridgeup.bsky.social: "the first work of its kind" to focus on the experiences of a single warship from the Pacific theatre to its postwar afterlife [bsky, 3 points, 0 comments]

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