Already posted this on Navy Help, but I feel this fits this forum as well.
I'm really interested in the torpedo hits allied ships suffered at the battle of Kolombangara, July 13th 1943, as part of the Soloman islands campaign in WW2. More specifically, I'm really itching to know which Japanese destroyers are credited for each of the torpedo hits. During the battle, the destroyer Yukikaze, using radar, led the destroyers Hamakaze, Kiyonami, and Yugure to two separate mass torpedo attacks. The first scored a hit to the light cruiser Leander, damaging her so badly she could not be repaired in time to take further part in WW2. The second spread, with one torpedo hit each sank the destroyer Gwin, and crippled the light cruisers Honolulu and Saind Louis.
Most of the sources I've read on the battle are primarily American/English based records that more focus on the allied ships and the damage caused to them than the actions of the Japanese destroyers and which ship scored which torpedo hit. Few sources of the battle primarily focusing on the Japanese ships, such as the book "Yukikaze's war" or Combined Fleet don't bother to credit any of the destroyers. It's not like these torpedoes were launched from a very long range, every source I've seen states 5,000 yards or less. It seemed fairly easy to credit the torpedo hits on American warships at the battle of Tassaforanga (USS New Orleans and Minneapolis-Takanami, USS Pensacola-Oyashio, USS Northampton-Kawakaze).
I'm wondering if anyone has any information on this topic, thank you very much.
I'm really interested in the torpedo hits allied ships suffered at the battle of Kolombangara, July 13th 1943, as part of the Soloman islands campaign in WW2. More specifically, I'm really itching to know which Japanese destroyers are credited for each of the torpedo hits. During the battle, the destroyer Yukikaze, using radar, led the destroyers Hamakaze, Kiyonami, and Yugure to two separate mass torpedo attacks. The first scored a hit to the light cruiser Leander, damaging her so badly she could not be repaired in time to take further part in WW2. The second spread, with one torpedo hit each sank the destroyer Gwin, and crippled the light cruisers Honolulu and Saind Louis.
Most of the sources I've read on the battle are primarily American/English based records that more focus on the allied ships and the damage caused to them than the actions of the Japanese destroyers and which ship scored which torpedo hit. Few sources of the battle primarily focusing on the Japanese ships, such as the book "Yukikaze's war" or Combined Fleet don't bother to credit any of the destroyers. It's not like these torpedoes were launched from a very long range, every source I've seen states 5,000 yards or less. It seemed fairly easy to credit the torpedo hits on American warships at the battle of Tassaforanga (USS New Orleans and Minneapolis-Takanami, USS Pensacola-Oyashio, USS Northampton-Kawakaze).
I'm wondering if anyone has any information on this topic, thank you very much.
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