5-400: Fujinami may refer to: Japanese destroyer Fujinami Ryunosuke Fujinami , fictional character from the manga series Urusei Yatsura Shintaro Fujinami , Japanese baseball player Takahisa Fujinami , Japanese motorcycle rider Tatsumi Fujinami , Japanese professional wrestler Fujinami Station (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
10-497: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Japanese destroyer Fujinami Fujinami ( 藤波 ) was a Yūgumo -class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy . Her name means "Purple Wave" or "Waves of Wisterias ". She was damaged by a dud aerial torpedo during an air raid at Rabaul on 5 November 1943, with one dead and nine wounded. The ship participated in
15-478: The Battle of Philippine Sea . In the Battle of Leyte Gulf , Fujinami escorted the 1st Diversion Attack Force, commanded by Admiral Kurita Takeo . She sustained minor damage from the air attacks on 24–25 October due to near-misses and strafing. In the Battle off Samar on 25 October Fujinami was detached to assist Chōkai , then she removed survivors and scuttled the cruiser with a torpedo . Some US survivors of
20-573: The escort carrier Gambier Bay have stated that the commanding officer Cmdr. Tatsuji Matsuzaki restrained his men from firing on them as they floated by Fujinami and was allegedly seen to salute the American sailors. On 27 October, while steaming to assist the destroyer Hayashimo , Fujinami was sunk by aircraft from the aircraft carrier USS Essex , 80 miles (130 km) north of Iloilo ( 12°0′N 122°30′E / 12.000°N 122.500°E / 12.000; 122.500 ). She
25-499: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Fujinami . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fujinami&oldid=1104442206 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Japanese-language surnames Hidden categories: Short description
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