US Marine Corps - The Black Vault

144 Amphibians Came To Conquer
by three Japanese destroyers, steamed slowly into Yokohama Harbor at 8:10
in the morning.~1
Of the four ships which entered Tokyo harbor together on that morning,
only the Hibiki survived the war, although she was damaged by a mine in
late March 1945. The Japanese destroyer Sagiri was the first to go, sunk by
a Dutch submarine off Borneo on the day before Christmas 1941. The Astoria
was the next. She was one of the first to populate Ironbottom Sound north
of Guadalcanal in August 1942, and she was joined in that graveyard by
the Akat.di sunk by United States naval gunfire from Rear Admiral
Callaghan’s Support Group, Task Group 67.4, during the night of 13
November 1942.
To make the Astoria’s visit stirring and unforgettable, the many Japanese
who wished to avoid war with the United States, joined with those Japanese
who wished to find in the A~to?ids visit an acceptance or an implied forgiveness
by the United States Government of Japanese aggression in Manchuria,
“ Tbe Tva?ss-pdcific, Tokyo, Thursday, 20 Apr. 1939.
Street funeral procession in Tokyo f or late Ambassador Saito.
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