Know Your KanMusu . Ahoy there, my fellow KanColle fans and admirals! Winter 2017 event is coming to its end but as I see, there are still lots of teitoku and shirekan there who are still either trying to clear this event but most of them are out there farming for rare ship girls. Honestly, because of E3, I have to sparkle my ships, especially the ones for support expedition to gain advantage over the abyssals, which is really time consuming honestly. :V Enough rants and let?s go straight to the business, shall we? ( Today, we proudly present to you one of the classy ships that made their debut on the Naval District, thanks to her kimono and that goddamn top hat. *like a sir* And one of her catchy feature is she is a bokukko! *clears throat* Sit back and relax comrades as we proudly present to you the fourth ship of the Kamikaze-class destroyers, Matsukaze.
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She was launched on October 30, 1923 and completed on April 5, 1924 as Destroyer No.7. On August 1, 1928, she was then renamed as Matsukaze. The First Air Fleet brought home success after the preemptive and treacherous assault on Oahu and Imperial Japan launched simultaneous offensive on the West Pacific. Matsukaze was then assigned to DesDiv 5 of DesRon 5 in the IJN 3rd Fleet. She was deployed from Mako Guard District in the Pescadores as part of the Japanese invasion force for the invasion of the Philippine Archipelago. She helped screen landing of Japanese forces on Lingayen Gulf. In early 1942, she was assigned to escort troop convoys from Taiwan to Malaya and French Indochina. These was then followed by a series of operations on the Dutch East Indies, including the invasion of Java, dubbed as Operation J. She also participated the Battle of Sunda Strait on March 1942, where she assisted destroyer Shiokaze in sinking a Dutch auxiliary minesweeper Endeh. After that, she was stationed with DesDiv 5 on Southwesr Area Fleet where she escorted troop convoy from Singapore to Penang, Rangoon, French Indochina and Makassar until the end of March 1943.
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Three months later, Matsukaze was reassigned to the IJN 8 th Fleet and sent to Rabaul by the end of June. And afterwards, she was deployed for several Tokyo Express troop transport runs. On October, she helped on the evacuation of Japanese forces from Vella Lavella and returned to Yokosuka for repairs at the end of that same month. On December 9, 1944, pnce again she was deployed for several Tokyo Express runs throughout Solomon Islands, especially to New Britain, after its return to Rabaul. As the Americans had the war in their favor, Matsukaze sustained medium damage caused by near misses and strafing attacks at Truk as Operation Hailstorm unleashed. It is quite fortunate she is able to return to Yokusuka via Saipan and Hahajima by March. After her repairs were finished, she was assigned to DesDiv 30 of DesRon 3 in the Central Pacific Area Fleet for convoy escort between the Japanese home islands and Saipan. On June 9, 1944, she departed from Tateyama, Chiba with a convoy bound for Saipan. Unfortunately, an American submarine, USS Swordfish, intercepted her and fired torpedoes upon her. She sank 70 miles northeast of Chichijima, Ogasawara Islands.
-Marco
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P.S. Her name Literally means ?Wind Among the Pine Trees?
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Special Thanks to Luke Baran for proofreading
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