Dark Seas | The Obliterated Destroyer that Never Surrendered @DarkDocsSeas | Uploaded June 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
The Imperial Japanese Navy’s Mutsuki was a seasoned destroyer when the Pacific War broke out. Built in the 1920s, she first saw combat against China, but nothing had truly prepared her to engage the imposing Allied Fleet in the 1940s.
On the first day of the war, Mutsuki was deployed to Wake Island, where she first combatted the Americans and suffered the humiliation of the first Japanese defeat in the conflict. However, she eventually returned and captured the precious island.
Soon, she would have to fight the Americans again in the dispute over Guadalcanal Island. Then, after a brief bombardment of US positions at Henderson Field that left her impaired, the destroyer joined Rear Admiral Tanaka Raizō's fleet.
On the morning of August 25, 1942, American aircraft pummeled a Japanese troop transport. As the destroyer approached to offer aid, another wave of hostile B-17s closed in. The captain, however, believed the aircraft would miss. Tragically, he was wrong…
The Imperial Japanese Navy’s Mutsuki was a seasoned destroyer when the Pacific War broke out. Built in the 1920s, she first saw combat against China, but nothing had truly prepared her to engage the imposing Allied Fleet in the 1940s.
On the first day of the war, Mutsuki was deployed to Wake Island, where she first combatted the Americans and suffered the humiliation of the first Japanese defeat in the conflict. However, she eventually returned and captured the precious island.
Soon, she would have to fight the Americans again in the dispute over Guadalcanal Island. Then, after a brief bombardment of US positions at Henderson Field that left her impaired, the destroyer joined Rear Admiral Tanaka Raizō's fleet.
On the morning of August 25, 1942, American aircraft pummeled a Japanese troop transport. As the destroyer approached to offer aid, another wave of hostile B-17s closed in. The captain, however, believed the aircraft would miss. Tragically, he was wrong…
