During the Pacific War, arguably the most successful component of the Imperial Japanese Fleet was its destroyer force.
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Stille (Commander, United States Navy, retired) received his BA in History from the University of Maryland and also holds an MA from the Naval War College.
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The success (or lack of success) of these designs will be discussed and they will be compared to comparable Allied destroyer designs.
The final part of the book will be an analysis of the destroyer designs covered in the book which will include an examination of their strengths and weaknesses.
All of these ships had a rich history as they fought from the first battles of the Pacific War up until the very end when several accompanied the superbattleship Yamato on her death sortie.
This book will also cover the three Classes built before the Special Type which were based on a German World War I design as well as two Classes built after the advent of the Special Type.
This design forced all other major navies to follow suite and provided the basic design for the next many Classes of Imperial Navy destroyers.
This includes the famous Fubuki class (called "Special Type" by the Japanese, which were, when completed in the late 1920\'s, the most powerful class of Destroyers in the world.
This volume will detail the history, weapons and tactics of the Japanese Destroyers built before the war.
In a series of night actions, these ships devastated Allied task forces with a number of daring night attacks using their deadly torpedoes.
However, it was not until the Guadalcanal campaign that these ships fully demonstrated their power.
In the first part of the war, Japanese Destroyers were instrumental in an unbroken string of Japanese victories.
Armed with a large, long-range torpedo (eventually called Long Lance by the Allies), these ships proved themselves as formidable opponents.
These ships were generally larger than their Allied counterparts and were better armed in most cases.
During the Pacific War, arguably the most successful component of the Imperial Japanese Fleet was its destroyer force
