- Author
- US Strategic Bombing Survey · Commander T. Miyamoto, interviewed by Captain T. J. Hedding
- Date
- 25 October 1945
- Passage
- NAV 32 / USSBS 133 · NDL4012389 · seven images; typescript pp.133-2 and 133-3 / PDF pp.2–3 for force organisation and rescue
What has been checked
Seven images inspected in the initial audit; PDF pp.2–5 visually rechecked on 21 October 2026, especially pp.2–3. Catalogue and retained 7-page scan compared; SHA-256 cc37160a1b2c01a173b408100bb43cc8ec0a5a5c8b800a0bd219e4ce7a2788b9. Original pp.133-2–133-3 / PDF pp.2–3 visually rechecked on 21 October 2026 for Isokaze’s division, changing screen and reported loss. Typescript p.133-2 / PDF p.2 visually rechecked on 21 October 2026 for Yukikaze’s division and the changing screen. Personal account: original typescript pp.133-2–133-3 visually rechecked on 24 October 2026 for duties, memory gap and information heard after rescue.
How to read it
Same testimony as YT-Y01, not an independent corroborating witness. The force list spells the name FUYUZUKI; the rescue passage says FUKUZUKI in both this typescript and the published transcription. Identifying the latter with Fuyutsuki is an editorial reading of that inconsistency. Its 41st Destroyer Squadron wording is compared with 41dg in the Japanese order. No rescue total, individual casualty roll or complete destroyer action log is supplied. Recalled timing and damage estimates are not final reconciled measurements. Miyamoto was aboard Yamato, not Isokaze; his later-loss answer does not establish an eyewitness scuttling account, exact time, weapon or individual rescue totals.
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