Second Destroyer Squadron: Ten-Ichi operation report

Author

Japanese Second Destroyer Squadron · English version published by the US Strategic Bombing Survey, Naval Analysis Division

Date

6–8 April 1945 · events; 1946 · publication

Passage

The Campaigns of the Pacific War, Appendix 103, printed pp.337–338 / PDF pp.371–372 of 438

What has been checked

Both Appendix 103 pages visually inspected on 21 October 2026 from the retained 438-page scan, SHA-256 c22c8ac7d563e51a04e9f2e56aea223c75b87f9cc951f183f309108bd4c39d6e. The images, rather than the compressed OCR, were used for the rescue and return entries.

How to read it

Original 1946 publication of an English version, not the Japanese wartime manuscript. Reported times have not been reconciled with all Japanese and American records; aircraft-loss and hit counts remain claims. It gives Yamato’s sinking as 1417 and prints an impossible 128°92′ E longitude for Isokaze; neither is adopted as a corrected location or definitive sinking time. Yukikaze is inconsistently rendered Yukakaze. The 1902 completion entry is not proof that every living survivor was recovered. No ship-by-ship rescue totals, full casualty roll or named agent of Isokaze’s scuttling are supplied. This report and Miyamoto’s testimony are different records, but their complete underlying information chains are not established.