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Asanagi

Class	Kamikaze class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Fate	Sunk. With the Gilberts invasion on 8-10 December 1941, and with the second Wake landing on 23 December. Her own record does not put her in the 11 December bombardment. USS Pollack torpedoed her on 22 May 1944, about 200 miles west-northwest of Chichi-jima. She sank in about 40 minutes. Eighty-two men were killed.
Armament (class)	Follow-on to the Minekaze class. Four single guns and two funnels.
Command	Hanami, Kouhei Captain for the second landing at Wake, 23 December 1941; Relieved on 10 October 1942

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

Asanagi was a Kamikaze-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. From 8 to 10 December 1941 she and Yunagi were with the Gilberts invasion.

The Battle of Wake Island fell in that same December. A cruiser's record names Asanagi in the bombardment of 11 December 1941. Her own record leaves her out of that bombardment, and it keeps her with the Gilberts force rather than with the first attack on Wake.

She was with the second landing at Wake on 23 December 1941. Kouhei Hanami was her captain for that landing. He was relieved on 10 October 1942. On 22 May 1944, about 200 miles west-northwest of Chichi-jima, USS Pollack torpedoed Asanagi. She sank in about 40 minutes. Eighty-two men were killed.

The pictures on this page are the originals.