Hasegawa – IJN Destroyer Type Koh Yukikaze “Operation Ten-Go 1945” 1/350 (Z22)

Description

Scale:1:350
SKU: 40022
Barcode: 4967834400221

Model supplied unpainted & unassembled.

1/350 scale IJN Destroyer Yukikaze.
Plastic model kit of a Kager-class destroyer.

Yukikaze (, “Snowy Wind”) was a Kager-class destroyer in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. She was the only member of her class to survive the war, and did so without suffering any major damage. She is famously known as a very fortunate ship, as she often survived numerous major naval encounters with little to no damage, while many of her allied ships would leave the battle crippled or sunk on multiple occasions. She did not accomplish anything of note in the battles of Java Sea, Midway, and Santa Cruz, but came to her own in various naval engagements in the Guadalcanal campaign, before seeing escorting missions during the Battle of the Philippine Sea, partaking in her last major surface engagement in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and seeing her last major action of any sort escorting the battleship Yamato during the Battle of Okinawa. Following the war, the ship was transferred to the Republic of China Navy, where she was renamed Dan Yang ( DD-12) and served until 1966, before being scrapped in 1970.