Escorting Shinano to Kure (November 28-29, 1944)

Yukikaze: "I knew it... There was no chance of winning this war from the very beginning..."

Shinano, a Yamato class 3rd ship under construction, was to be moved to Kure under the escort of 3 destroyers so that she wouldn't be found again by the enemy B-29 reconnaissance plane. In the end she took 4 torpedo shots by one American submarine and sunk, resulting in history's shortest naval battle of just 17 hours. The crew members who were blamed for this incident could not hold their anger for "the constructors, who created a faulty ship, the HQ who shortened the secret trials and let her out of the dock, and the higher-ups who made the escort consist of only 3 destroyers".