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DD102 Harusame JMSDF BaseVehicle: Ship , base type: Murasame DD-101 class , build era: 0 (not yet built) , operator country: Japan , origin country: Japan , kit manufacturer: Skywave Pitroad , Scale: 1/700 , topics: Destroyer , aera of use: afterwar , DBTyp: Model
DD102 Harusame JMSDF
DD118 Murakumo JMSDF BaseVehicle: Ship , build era: 0 (not yet built) , operator country: Japan , origin country: Japan , kit manufacturer: Skywave Pitroad , Scale: 1/700 , topics: Destroyer , aera of use: afterwar , DBTyp: Model
DD118 Murakumo JMSDF
DD121 Yugumo JMSDF   BaseVehicle: Ship , build era: 0 (not yet built) , operator country: Japan , origin country: Japan , kit manufacturer: Skywave Pitroad , Scale: 1/700 , topics: Destroyer , aera of use: afterwar , DBTyp: Model
DD121 Yugumo JMSDF, Hatsushima JMSDF
DDG179 Maya JMSDF    BaseVehicle: Ship , build era: 0 (not yet built) , operator country: Japan , origin country: Japan , kit manufacturer: Skywave Pitroad , Scale: 1/700 , topics: Destroyer , aera of use: time(2021-heute) , DBTyp: Model
DDG179 Maya JMSDF
DE-214 Oi JMSDF      BaseVehicle: Ship , base type: Isuzu class , build era: 0 (not yet built) , operator country: Japan , origin country: Japan , kit manufacturer: Skywave Pitroad , Scale: 1/700 , topics: Destroyer , aera of use: afterwar , DBTyp: Model
DE-214 Oi JMSDF
Escort Destroyer Etorofu BaseVehicle: Ship , base type: Type A mod Etorofu , build era: 0 (not yet built) , operator country: Japan ..., origin country: Japan , kit manufacturer: Skywave , Scale: 1/700 , topics: Destroyer , aera of use: WW2 afterwar , DBTyp: Model
Escort Destroyer Etorofu
Escort Destroyer Type B Mikura BaseVehicle: Ship , build era: 0 (not yet built) , operator country: Japan ..., origin country: Japan , kit manufacturer: Skywave , Scale: 1/700 , topics: Destroyer , aera of use: WW2 afterwar , DBTyp: Model
Escort Destroyer Type B Mikura
Escort Destroyer Type C Hei BaseVehicle: Ship , build era: 0 (not yet built) , operator country: Japan ..., origin country: Japan , kit manufacturer: Skywave , Scale: 1/700 , topics: Destroyer , aera of use: WW2 afterwar , DBTyp: Model
Escort Destroyer Type C Hei B-25 Mitchell skip-bombs a Japanese Kaibokan escort ship, 6 April 1945<br><br>B-25 Mitchell, nicknamed "Ruthless Ruth", pulls up after making a skip-bombing run on Japanese coastal defense vessel No. 134. The plane was flown by USAAF Lieutenant Louie A. Mikell of the 499th Bomb Squadron ("Bats Outa Hell"), part of 5th Air Force. Japanese convoy HOMO-03 left Hong Kong enroute to Shanghai, consisting of subchasers CH-9 and CH-20, destroyer Amatsukaze, Kaibokan (escort destroyers) Coastal Defense Vessels No. 1 and No. 134, Tokai Maru Number 2 and Kine Maru on April 4, 1945.<br><br>Attacks by US Air Force B-24 Liberators on April 5 sink the two transports, and the convoy breaks up. The subchasers return to Hong Kong while the destroyers head for Amoy, China. Enroute, CH-9, CH-20 and No. 1 are damaged by another wave of B-24s. The next day, the three destroyers are found by twenty-four B-25s of the 345th; the Americans volunteered for the long over-water flight from their base at San Marcelino, Luzon to the Japanese ships off the China coast. Lt. Mikell scored a near-miss with his delayed fuse bomb; Lieutenant Francis Thompson strafed the ship; the flight leader scored a hit amidships. No. 134 rolled over to starboard and sank, her surviving crew abandoning ship to the shark-infested waters. No. 1 was also skip-bombed and sank. Amatsukaze destroyer was also heavy damaged. Her crew beached the ship a mile away on a reef, at the entrance to Amoy harbor, but slipped stern-first into the sea and sank with the loss of 44 of her crew.<br><br>The tactic used in these attacks is called skip-bombing. Skip bombing is a low-altitude bombing attack that has been successfully used against naval targets. It consists of a string of from two to four bombs dropped from such an altitude and distance from the target that a complete miss is improbable. The attack should be delivered with the idea in mind of securing a maximum of surprise and should not be repeated against the same targets too often. The altitude of the attack should be from 200 to 300 feet (60-90 meters) and the bomb-release line from 350 to 200 feet (60-100 meter) from the target. Skip bombing was very effective but also potentially suicidal if the target was on high alert and equipped with good AA guns and directors.<br><br>Interesting stuff:<br><br>In the last frame, you can see a lot of men in the water, or working their way down the port side of the hull. Sources say that 44 of her crew of 240 died in this attack. The ship in the photo is a Kaikoban type C diesel engined escort ship. The C Type escorts were used for convoy escort operations. However by 1944 the advantage had passed to the US, and many C Type vessels became casualties as the Japanese merchant fleet was devastated by the American submarine offensive. There were 53 finished during the war of the 300 planned, and several completed after World War II ended. 26 were sunk during the war.<span class="fn" ><a href="http://www.facebook.com/WeaponSystems/photos/a.729516493759057.1073741928.211645425546169/1029524517091585/?type=1" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/WeaponSystems/photos/a.729516493759057.1073741928.211645425546169/1029524517091585/?type=1</a> </span>  <br>
Hakata PL-05 Coast Guard BaseVehicle: Ship , base type: Erimo class , build era: 0 (not yet built) , operator country: Japan , origin country: Japan , kit manufacturer: Skywave Pitroad , Scale: 1/700 , topics: Destroyer , aera of use: afterwar , DBTyp: Model
Hakata PL-05 Coast Guard
Namikaze Kaiten (Nokaze Kit) BaseVehicle: Ship , build era: 0 (not yet built) , operator country: Japan China Taiwan , origin country: Japan , kit manufacturer: Skywave , Scale: 1/700 , topics: Destroyer Submarine , aera of use: Interwar WW2 ..., DBTyp: Model
Namikaze Kaiten (Nokaze Kit), Nokaze Evolution Minekaze Class. Source: <a href="http://forum.worldofwarships.com/index.php?/topic/7318-december-29-focus-kamikaze-class-and-independence-class/" target="_blank">http://forum.worldofwarships.com/index.php?/topic/7318-december-29-focus-kamikaze-class-and-independence-class/</a> Namikaze Kaiten (Nokaze Kit)  Source & terms of use: <a href="http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/ships/destroyers-japan/15107/viewsingle/ijn_namikaze_(destroyer)_(1945)/" target="_blank">http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/ships/destroyers-japan/15107/viewsingle/ijn_namikaze_(destroyer)_(1945)/</a>  (needs registration) Kaiten, Tachibana (Kaiten Stern)
Nokaze               BaseVehicle: Ship , build era: 0 (not yet built) , operator country: Japan ..., origin country: Japan , kit manufacturer: Skywave , Scale: 1/700 , topics: Destroyer , aera of use: Interwar WW2 ..., DBTyp: Model
Namikaze Kaiten (Nokaze Kit), Nokaze
Tachibana (1944)     BaseVehicle: Ship , build era: 0 (not yet built) , operator country: Japan ..., origin country: Japan , kit manufacturer: Skywave Pitroad , Scale: 1/700 , topics: Destroyer , aera of use: WW2 afterwar ..., DBTyp: Model
Tachibana (1944), Tachibana (Kaiten Stern)
Teruzuki DD-162      BaseVehicle: Ship , base type: Akizuki DD-161 class , build era: 0 (not yet built) , operator country: Japan , origin country: Japan , kit manufacturer: Pitroad Skywave , Scale: 1/700 , topics: Destroyer , aera of use: afterwar , DBTyp: Model
Teruzuki DD-162
Yukaze               BaseVehicle: Ship , base type: Minekaze Class , build era: 0 (not yet built) , operator country: Japan ..., origin country: Japan , kit manufacturer: Skywave , Scale: 1/700 , topics: Destroyer , aera of use: time(1921-1945) ..., DBTyp: Model
Yukaze


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