- Commercialized the Mutsuki-class destroyer [Yuzuki] with enhanced anti-aircraft weapons.
- The Mutsuki-class destroyers can be broadly divided into two types, the early type and the late type, depending on the difference in equipment.
- It can be divided into the early type equipped with weapons mainly depth charge weapons on the rear deck and the late type equipped with paravanes etc. on the same deck and contributing to the minesweeping mission.
- Yuzuki is included in the late model equipped with paravanes, and there are Kikuzuki, Mikazuki, and Mochizuki in the same type ship.
- Many of the Mutsuki-class ships are used to escort convoys and spend days traveling back and forth from the mainland to the South Pacific.
- In this class, which was said to have weak anti-aircraft armament, it will be changed to armament suitable for the battlefield that has become the front line.
- We will remove two of the four main guns, half of them, and equip them with 25mm double and triple guns to strengthen the anti-aircraft armament.
- From August 20th, 1944, Yuzuki and her consort ships will form the [Japanese hunter-killer squadron] consisting of Otaka-class aircraft carriers to escort the convoy.
- By December 1944, only Uzuki and Yuzuki survived the Mutsuki-class destroyers due to the fierce battles escorting the convoy.
- Then, I will participate in the multi-go operation aimed at landing munitions supplies and soldiers for the Japanese army confronting the US army that landed in Ormoc, Leyte.
- However, the U.S. military attack was fierce, and all the transport ships were destroyed. Yuzuki was also sunk on the 13th, and all Mutsuki-class ships were lost.
( This is a machine translation. Please allow for possible misinterpretations in the text. )