IJN · DD
Asanagi
Photos and infoKamikaze-class destroyer. On 8-10 December 1941 she and Yunagi were with the Gilberts invasion, not the first attack on Wake. A cruiser record names her in the 11 December bombardment. Her own record does not. She was with the second landing on 23 December. USS Pollack sank her on 22 May 1944.
| Class | Kamikaze class |
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| 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. |
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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.
Shizuo Fukui, 29 December 1924. Asanagi, with 15 on the bow. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The pictures on this page are the originals.
No color version yet. Colored pictures and film will be added here.
Command
Battle of Wake Island
1941-12-11 · Gilberts on 8-10 December; second landing on 23 December
