Book contents
- Yukikaze’s War
- Yukikaze’s War
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- A Note on Sources
- Chapter 1 Divine Ships of a Bluewater Navy
- Chapter 2 Torpedoes, Destroyers, and Samurai of the Seas
- Chapter 3 Oil Empire and Japan’s Southern Advance
- Chapter 4 Conquest of the South Seas
- Chapter 5 Escorting Catastrophe at Midway
- Chapter 6 Barroom Brawl at Guadalcanal
- Chapter 7 Defending the Solomon Sea and Bismarck Barrier
- Chapter 8 The Mariana Islands and the Collapse of Japan’s Defensive Sphere
- Chapter 9 The Leyte Theater
- Chapter 10 Dangerous Homewaters and Shinano Destroyed
- Chapter 11 Yamato and the Specter of History
- Chapter 12 Surrender and the Enduring Dangers of Yukikaze’s Haunt
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
Chapter 7 - Defending the Solomon Sea and Bismarck Barrier
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 June 2024
- Yukikaze’s War
- Yukikaze’s War
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- A Note on Sources
- Chapter 1 Divine Ships of a Bluewater Navy
- Chapter 2 Torpedoes, Destroyers, and Samurai of the Seas
- Chapter 3 Oil Empire and Japan’s Southern Advance
- Chapter 4 Conquest of the South Seas
- Chapter 5 Escorting Catastrophe at Midway
- Chapter 6 Barroom Brawl at Guadalcanal
- Chapter 7 Defending the Solomon Sea and Bismarck Barrier
- Chapter 8 The Mariana Islands and the Collapse of Japan’s Defensive Sphere
- Chapter 9 The Leyte Theater
- Chapter 10 Dangerous Homewaters and Shinano Destroyed
- Chapter 11 Yamato and the Specter of History
- Chapter 12 Surrender and the Enduring Dangers of Yukikaze’s Haunt
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Chapter 7 explores the life on the water for Japanese sailors, and their tenuous connections to the Japanese home islands. Japanese society was mobilized for total warfare, which meant letter-writing campaigns for Japanese school children. Japanese society valorized the Imperial Japanese Navy, the pride of the nation, particularly after such Japanese victories at the Battle of Kolombangara.
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- Yukikaze's WarThe Unsinkable Japanese Destroyer and World War II in the Pacific, pp. 137 - 158Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024