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	Destroyer Command - History
		Destroyers at first could only attempt to ram submarines or destroy them with gunfire, but since the early submarine made its attacks while surfaced there was a good chance of success with these methods.
		While the destroyer remained the chief defense of the battle fleet against submarines, naval planners realized that the destroyer's high speed and slender shape did not lend themselves to the anti-submarine struggle.
		Destroyer combat did not always prove that deadly, but the intense involvement of destroyers in all types of naval action caused severe losses.
	www.destroyercommand.com /campaigns.html (3127 words)

	Battle of Wake Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The island was held by the Japanese until September 4, 1945, when the remaining Japanese garrison surrendered to a detachment of the United States Marine Corps.
		The Japanese losses were recorded at between 700 to 900 killed with at least 1,000 more wounded, in addition to the two destroyers lost in the first invasion attempt, as well as at least 20 land-based and carrier aircraft.
		Shigematsu Sakaibara is the Japanese officer in the right-foreground.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Wake_Island (1861 words)

	Henry Talmage Elrod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He executed several low-altitude bombing and strafing runs on enemy ships; during one of these attacks, he became the first man to sink a warship, the Japanese destroyer Kisaragi with small caliber bombs delivered from a fighter aircraft.
		Wreckage of Wildcat 211-F-11, flown by Capt Elrod on December 11, in the attack that sunk the Japanese destroyer Kisaragi
		When all the U.S. Aircraft had been destroyed by hostile fire, he organized remaining troops into a beach defense unit which repulsed repeated Japanese attacks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_T._Elrod (505 words)

	Battlefield 1942 Gazette
		Despite the fact that the same general difficulties were anticipated for the next attempt, the Japanese higher echelons let the basic scheme of attack remain largely unchanged : the new plan and estimate of the situation were, in essence, amplified versions of the original one which had failed.
		The Japanese were in firm possession of the first battery position, but surrounded by the Marines, which prevented them any expansion of the beachhead.
		The destroyer Kisaragi, sunk as the result of damage inflicted by two 100-pound bombs on the morning of 11 December 1941.
	ffaclan.free.fr /bf/ewake.shtml (3237 words)

	Naval Actions and losses 1941 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Japanese submarine I170 sunk by SBD divebombers from the carrier Enterprise.
		Japanese destroyer Hayate sunk by defenders on Wake.
		Japanese destroyer Kisaragi sunk by defenders on Wake.
	www.wolftree.freeserve.co.uk /Naval/Naval_Actions_WW241Pac.html (369 words)

	Holding Out on Wake Island
		While losing some aircraft to Japanese bombing runs, the Marines were able to cobble together enough aircraft to serve a blow to the Japanese Navy.
		Putnam's aviators are in the air harrassing incoming Bombers and engaging Japanese fighters.
		Pilot, Henry Elrod nails the Japanese destroyer Kisaragi with one 100 pound bomb, sinking it.
	journals.aol.com /jlzienta/my-free-time-with-the-marines/entries/2006/12/12/holding-out-on-wake-island/566 (361 words)

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		A Japanese destroyer rushed forward to assist the stricken Yubari but was subjected to the same fate as the cruiser.
		The aircraft scored hits on two cruisers, a destroyer, a destroyer transport and a transport.
		During the battle, the Japanese suffered two destroyers sunk, six others heavily damaged and the cruiser Yubari was forced to return to Japan.
	www.marinetimes.com /print.php?f=0-MARINEPAPER-1553967.php (667 words)

	Wake History2
		But the tight Japanese air discipline, excellent for defense against fighters, made their formations a well-aligned, carefully closed-up, massed target for antiaircraft guns, and, but the time bombs had hit Peale, five bombers were visibly smoking from the ground.
		Destroyer Division 30, comprising the other half of the Japanese destroyer force, was meanwhile proceeding west of Kuku Point on a northwesterly course, led in all probability by the Yayoi.
		The Japanese reaction was prompt and aggressive, consisting of a concentrated return fire which raked Peale and scored hits in and about the guns of Batteries B and D, destroying communications between the 5-inch guns and the battery command post.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /micronesia/about_destin/wake_history2.html (9538 words)

	IJN Minekaze, Kamikaze and Mutsuki class Destroyers
		Destroyers were purchased mainly from Yarrows and Thonnycroft, leaders in destroyer design at the time.
		While not all of these new ideas were completely successful, (the forward gun and torpedo mounting were swept by water in heavy seas and were sometimes unworkable), generally the new destroyers were fast and powerful ships that were equal to any of their foreign contemporaries.
		The parallel designs, Second Class destroyers of the Momi and Wakataka classes, were also ordered in this period and for a time after their completion were also not given the names assigned to them but were only known by their hull numbers.
	smmlonline.com /articles/minekaze/minekaze.html (1750 words)

	U.S. Naval Chronology Of W.W.II, 1941
		Destroyer NIBLACK (DD-424) while rescuing survivors of torpedoed Netherlands freighter, depth charges German submarine off Iceland; this is believed to be the first action of the war between United States and German vessels.
		Destroyer REUBEN JAMES (DD-245) is torpedoed and sinks off western Iceland with loss of about 100 lives; this is the first United States naval vessel to be lost by enemy action in World War II.
		Japanese land on Camiguin Island and at Gonzaga and Aparri, Luzon, P. British battleship PRINCE OF WALES and battlecruiser REPULSE are sunk by Japanese naval air attack near Kuantan, Malaya.
	www.navsource.org /Naval/1941.htm (2574 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Meanwhile, the Japanese were decimating Wake Island, hitting the gun batteries and destroying the ammunition dumps, as well as the barracks, radio station and machine shops.
		However, the Japanese were determined to take the strategically located island, which had been annexed by the United States in 1899.
		As the three-inch gun fired over their heads, Capt. Elrod and the remaining VMF Marines fought off several hundred Japanese troops for six hours, until all but one of the Marines was dead, including Capt. Elrod, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic combat flying and leading Marines on the ground.
	www.sftt.org /dwa/2002/12/24/2.html (1999 words)

	USN, Medal of Honor, Pearl Harbor, Midway, Wake, Island, Philippines, Fuqua
		In charge of the ordnance repair party on the third deck when the first Japanese torpedo struck almost directly under his station, Lt. (then Gunner) Pharris was stunned and severely injured by the concussion which hurled him to the overhead and back to the deck.
		During the first attack by Japanese airplanes on the Naval Air Station, Kaneohe Bay, on 7 December 1941, Lt. Finn promptly secured and manned a.50-caliber machinegun mounted on an instruction stand in a completely exposed section of the parking ramp, which was under heavy enemy machinegun strafing fire.
		The Japanese forces made a combined drive on the capital of Manila, which was declared an open city.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2USMoH1941.htm (2713 words)

	HyperWar: History of USMC Operations in WWII, Vol. I: Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal, Part III [Chapter 2]
		Throughout the siege the Japanese planes continued to elude the most vigilant visual observation, and with the sound of their engines drowned by the booming surf they would often have their bombs away before they were spotted.
		A destroyer then attempted to lay smoke between the troubled cruiser and the shore battery, but it was chased away by a lucky hit from a shell aimed at the cruiser.
		Japanese records indicate, however, that the destroyer Hagate was sunk by shore batteries and the destroyer Kisaragi by the VMF-211 bombs.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USMC/I/USMC-I-III-2.html (7946 words)

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		Japanese forces land at Tarawa and Makin in the Gilbert Islands.
		Japanese air raids in the Philippines all but destroy the last US aircraft available to the island’s defenders.
		The Japanese, after attempting to secure the surrender of the British forces at Hong Kong, begin an artillery and aerial bombardment of the besieged island.
	www.bartcop.com /411219.htm (1644 words)

	What Are Japanese Fantasy Films Telling Us?
		The movies in fact give voice to many of the basic tenets of the Japanese right, the most central of which is that the warped history of the postwar has robbed Japan of its standing as a true nation (which it is why it is called a ruined or destroyed nation in Aegis).
		The statement, “Japanese have forgotten how shameful it is to have, without a care, allowed someone else to defend them,” underlines the disgraceful condition of today’s Japan as perceived by neonationalists—and proves all the more embarrassing because it is uttered by the North Korean Yong Fa, the enemy.
		This may align the films with the public ideology of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces[9] and conservative efforts to amend the Constitution to justify their existence: they are, it is argued, not for waging war, but only for protecting the nation.
	hnn.us /articles/22182.html (5274 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Gregory J. W. Urwin - Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island at Epinions.com
		The Allies were being attacked by Japanese forces everywhere: Indonesia, China, the Phillipines, Guam, Midway and Hawaii (even the U. west coast was shelled (on at least two occassions) by passing Japanese submarines, though they caused little damage).
		A Japanese destroyer, the Hayate, charged the island only to suffer a hit in her ammuntion magazine that split the ship in two "like a folding jackknife," according to Urwin, and the ship sank with its 168 crewmen.
		The Japanese continued to try landing troops on the island, only to pile the bodies of their dead on Wake's beaches and to lose their landing craft to Marine firepower.
	www.epinions.com /content_168364445316 (2403 words)

	The Dark Days of '42
		Last night Japanese forces attacked Wake Island, this morning Japanese forces attacked Midway Island." Some of thses attacks, such as Wake Island and the Philippines, were initial air attacks only; ground troops came later, except at Midway.
		The Marines' shore battery sank the Japanese destroyer Hayate, and planes from Marine Fighter Squadron 211 sank the destroyer Kisaragi.
		As the Japanese marched into the capital, MacArthur's force of 65,000 Filipinos and 15,000 Americans retreated into the Bataan Peninsula on the opposite side of Manila Bay for a last-ditch defense.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/us_history_1929_1945/83868 (487 words)

	USS OAKLAND HISTORY 1941-42
		Japanese land on Camiguin Island and at Gonzaga and Aparri, Luzon, P. United States naval vessels damaged: Destroyer PEARY (DD-226), by horizontal bomber.
		Japanese naval vessels sunk: Battleship HIEI, by naval gunfire, carrier-based aircraft, and Marine land-based aircraft.
		Japanese naval vessels sunk: Battleship KIRISHIMA, by naval gunfire.
	www.rtcol.com /~weshortz/history/hist4142.htm (3421 words)

	Museum of Tolerance Multimedia Learning Center
		On the day the Japanese pulverized Pearl Harbor, there were some 447 Marines on Wake, under Major James Devereux, along with some 75 Army Signal Corps and Navy personnel.
		The Japanese planes bombed and strafed Wake's airstrip, blowing up seven of the eight United States planes still on the ground and damaging the other one.
		Two of his destroyers had been sunk and more than 500 of his men were dead.
	motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org /text/x22/xr2206.html (856 words)

	HyperWar: A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island
		After he considered the evidence of increased Japanese air activity in the Marshalls, with one, or perhaps two, carrier groups in that vicinity, as well as "evidence of extensive offshore lookout and patrol," he decided that a surprise raid on Jaluit could not be conducted successfully.
		Having received a report of Japanese destroyers standing toward Wake's south shore (and well inside the range of the 5-inch batteries that had so vexed the enemy on 11 December), Second Lieutenant Robert M. Hanna, who commanded the machine guns emplaced at the airstrip, clearly perceived the threat.
		The Japanese transported the wounded military men and civilians from the island as their wounds healed and they were deemed well enough to travel.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USMC/USMC-C-Wake.html (20145 words)

	Mjr Paul Putnam, Capt Henry "Baron" Elrod, Capt Herbert Freuler
		Eight of Putnam's Wildcats were destroyed, but the four that were left put up a gallant fight, which helped delay the final capture of the island for two weeks.
		A destroyer was sunk, the first Japanese warship to be sent to the bottom in the war, and several other ships were hit.
		Japanese bombers arrived over Wake with an escort of agile Zero fighters.
	www.aviation-history.com /airmen/wake.htm (634 words)

	A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island (Humbled by Sizeable Casualties)
		As the Japanese ships neared Wake, the Army radio unit on the atoll sent a message from Cunningham to Pearl Harbor at 0200 on the 11th, telling of the contractors' casualties, and, because of the danger that lay at Wake's doorstep, suggested early evacuation of the civilians.
		A pre-war view of the destroyer Kisaragi, sunk as the result of damage inflicted by two 100-pound bombs dripped by Capt Henry T. Elrod on the morning of 11 December 1941.
		The Wildcat in the foreground, 211-F-11, was flown on 11 December by Capt Elrod in the attack that sank the Japanese destroyer Kisaragi.
	www.nps.gov /wapa/indepth/extContent/usmc/pcn-190-003119-00/sec2.htm (2368 words)

	Nadir of the Navy: Operations to Relief Wake Island, December 1941
		As Japanese strike planes departed the ruins that once had been the U.S. battleforce, pre-war U.S. plans for the conduct of operations in the Pacific had been turned upside-down.
		Three old light cruisers, carrying only fourteen guns, and six destroyers, old ones dating from the early 20's, were put in charge of providing cover, support, and escort to two even older destroyers reconfigured for troop carrying and two Maru-type large transports.
		Had the Japanese asked the Americans for advice on how to deploy themselves, they could not have created more favorable circumstances for a U.S. carrier raid on their exposed landing forces, but it was not to be; various reasons were responsible.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/battles/relief_of_wake.htm (1573 words)

	Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Cunningham
		And as for the Japanese, in spite of their saber rattling they must have known they hadn't the industrial base or the technical know-how required to justify hope for victory in a war against both the United States and Great Britain.
		Japanese flags could be seen on Wilkes at daylight and it was assumed that it had fallen to the enemy.
		Japanese referred this as part of "Bushido", which is translated as "the way of the warrior".
	www.chuckhawks.com /admiral_cunningham.htm (19564 words)

	Historium
		The Japanese force consisted of destroyers, light cruisers, and several other small warships.
		Some days before, on December 8, an attack by Japanese carrier-planes had taken out 8 of the 12 American planes on the island.
		Japanese ship to be sunk in the war.
	historium.motime.com (2647 words)

	Imperial Japanese Navy Deployment 1914
		So be careful that the Japanese ships you use are not treaty cruisers, aircraft carriers or destroyers armed with Long Lance torpedoes.
		Lacroix and Wells's monumental "Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War" gives detailed information on Japanese fleet organization and other matters back at least to the turn of the century, the title notwithstanding.
		Below is the basic structure of the Japanese navy under the reorganization of 10 July 1914; they do not tell which ships were in each formation, so I'm not sure whether this will be helpful.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/fdjn0001.htm (545 words)

	Marine Corps League - Northern Colorado Detachment 785 - December 2004 Newsletter
		The Japanese attacked American garrisons at Wake Island, Guam and the Philippines.
		VMF-211 Wildcats sank the Japanese destroyer Kisaragi during the defense of Wake Island.
		The Japanese landed at and captured Wake Island.
	www.semperfi785.com /News20041203.htm (333 words)

	Henry T. Elrod - Information at Halfvalue.com
		He executed several low-altitude bombing and strafing runs on enemy ships; during one of these attacks, he became the first man to sink a warship, the Japanese destroyer Kisaragi with small caliber bombs delivered from a fighter aircraft.
		Wreckage of Wildcat 211-F-11, flown by Capt Elrod on December 11, in the attack that sunk the Japanese destroyer Kisaragi
		When all the U.S. Aircraft had been destroyed by hostile fire, he organized remaining troops into a beach defense unit which repulsed repeated Japanese attacks.
	www.halfvalue.com /wiki.jsp?topic=Henry_T._Elrod (567 words)

	Trumpeter 1/32 F4F-3 Wildcat, by Bill Koppos
		Quick figuring showed the Japanese could only have come from the Marshall Islands, and would be attacking around the same time during the day.
		Destroyer "Hayate" split in two and sank, the first major ship loss of the war for the Japanese.The eager Marine flyers were finally allowed to take off, loaded with 100 pound bombs on modified racks.
		John Kinney was diving for an attack when Destroyer "Kisaragi" blew up under him, apparently a victim of her own depth charges.
	www.modelingmadness.com /reviews/allies/us/usn/kopposf4f.htm (3055 words)

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