Aoshima 445(03396) 1/700 IJN Destroyer Akigumo 秋雲 (1943)

駆逐艦秋雲 (1943)

World War Two
Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN)
Kagerō-class destroyers (Total 19, only Yukikaze survived the war)
Commissioned: 27 September 1941
Attack on Pearl Harbor [7 Dec 1941]
After the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, Akigumo & Makigumo sank the heavily damaged and abandoned USS Hornet on 27 Oct 1942
[1943/44] - Radar & AA guns refit
[11 Apr 1944] - Akigumo was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Redfin