Kapal perusak Jepang Natsugumo (1937)
Natsugumo (夏雲, Summer Cloud) (夏雲 Summer Cloud) [1] adalah kapal ketujuh dari sepuluh destroyer kelas-Asashios built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the mid-1930s under the Circle Two Supplementary Naval Expansion Program (Maru Ni Keikaku).
Sejarah operasional
Natsugumo dimasukkan ke Divisi Perusak ke-9, dan menjadi anggota Skuadron Perusak ke-4 dari Armada Kedua. Ia berada dibawah komando Letnan Komandan Moritaro Tsukamoto,Pada saat penyerangan di Pearl Harbor, Natsugumo mengawal pasukan invasi Filipina ke Vigan dan Lingayen. Dia kemudian membantu pendaratan pasukan Jepang di Tarakan, Balikpapan, Makasar dan Jawa di Hindia Belanda. Selama Pertempuran Laut Jawa pada 27 Februari, dia berpisah untuk melakukan tugas mengawal konvoi pasukan sehingga tidak terlibat dalam pertempuran itu. Namun, pada 1 Maret dia berhasil merusak kapal selam USS Bertengger dengan peledak kedalaman.[2]
Natsugumo berpartisipasi dalam Pertempuran Pulau Natal dari 31 Maret sampai 10 April. Ia mengawal kapal penjelajah Naka yang sudah rusak ke Singapura, dan kemudian kembali ke Yokosuka pada 12 April untuk perbaikan.
Natsugumo mengawal Pasukan Serbu Midway Nobutake Kondō Midway Invasion Force during the Battle of Midway from 4–6 June 1942. Afterwards, she was reassigned to the Ominato Naval District and assigned to patrols of the Kurile Islands and north Pacific to mid-July. However, on 19 July, she received orders to escort the cruiser Chokai from Kure to Truk. From Truk, she made a transport run to Kwajalein and returned to Yokosuka by 8 August.
On 11 August, Natsugumo departed Yokosuka for Truk, and was part of the escort for the aircraft carrier Chitose at the Battle of the Eastern Solomons on 24 August. She was assigned to patrols out of Truk in September, and ordered to Pulau Shortland in October. During the month of October, she made four “Tokyo Express transport runs to Guadalcanal. On the fourth run, while escorting Nisshin and Chitose, she went to the assistance of the destroyer Murakumo which had been damaged during the Battle of Cape Esperance. Attacked by United States Navy aircraft on the night of 11 October, near misses ruptured her hull, and she sank after only 39 minutes at position 08°40′S 159°20′E / 8.667°S 159.333°E approximately 90 mil laut (170 km; 100 mi) west-northwest of Savo Island. The attack killed 16 crewmen, including her captain (LtCdr Moritaro Tsukamoto); the destroyer Asagumo took off her 176 survivors [3] Dia dicoret dari navy list pada tanggal 15 November 1942.
Kutipan
- ^ Nelson. Japanese-English Character Dictionary. page 52, 942
- ^ Allyn D. Nevitt (1998). "IJN Natsugumo: Tabular Record of Movement". combinedfleet.com. Diakses tanggal 2008-02-06.
- ^ Brown, David (1990). Warship Losses of World War Two. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-914-X.
Referensi
- D'Albas, Andrieu (1965). Death of a Navy: Japanese Naval Action in World War II. Devin-Adair Pub. ISBN 0-8159-5302-X.
- Brown, David (1990). Warship Losses of World War Two. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-914-X.
- Hammel, Eric (1988). Guadalcanal: Decision at Sea : The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, Nov. 13–15, 1942. (CA): Pacifica Press. ISBN 0-517-56952-3.
- Howarth, Stephen (1983). The Fighting Ships of the Rising Sun: The Drama of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1895–1945. Atheneum. ISBN 0-689-11402-8.
- Jentsura, Hansgeorg (1976). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945. US Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-893-X.
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- Watts, Anthony J (1967). Japanese Warships of World War II. Doubleday. ASIN B000KEV3J8.
- Whitley, M J (2000). Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 1-85409-521-8.