IJN · DD
Tanikaze
Photos and infoKagero-class destroyer. In the carrier screen at Midway, and not sunk there. At Kula Gulf she was in the support group with Niizuki and Suzukaze. She and Suzukaze launched the torpedoes that hit Helena. Not pinned to one of them. One shell that did not explode hit her. Torpedoed by USS Harder in Sibutu Passage on 9 June 1944.
Kagero classFujinagata ShipyardsLaunched 1940-11-01Commissioned 1941-04-25Torpedoed by USS Harder in Sibutu Passage, 9 June 1944
Shizuo Fukui. Japanese destroyer Tanikaze at anchor in April 1941.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Command
Battle of Midway
1942-06-04 · in the screen
Battle of Kula Gulf
1943-07-06 · one dud shell; launched torpedoes with Suzukaze
