ocr: IJN Matsu Destroyer 3H5 Inch Primary Mounts 24H25mm AA Mounts 4H Type 93 Torpedo Tube Mounts uisplacement: 1500 tons Mak. Speed: 28 knots Armor: none The Matsus were a desperate effort by the Japanese to: produce destroyers quickly. In doing so, the sacrificed speed, torpedoes, gunnery, and AA guns. They were completed from mid-1944 to the end of the war. Matsu herself was the first one to be sunk. She was damaged by planes and finished by gunfire off Chichijima. Kuwa was sunk at Leyte Gulf in 1944, and Momo was the third unit lost in 1944, being sunk by the USS Hawkbill. Hinoki was sunk by gu ...
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