Japanese destroyer Oite (1924)
The Japanese destroyer Oite was one of nine Kamikaze-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during the 1920s.During the Pacific War, she participated in the Battle of Wake Island in December 1941 and the occupations of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands in early 1942.
Oite off Yokohama, 1927
A Japanese destroyer (probably Oite) under U.S. Navy aircraft attack near Truk Lagoon on 18 February 1944
Kamikaze-class destroyer (1922)
The Kamikaze-class destroyers were a class of nine destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Some authors consider the Nokaze, Kamikaze and Mutsuki classes to be extensions of the Minekaze-class destroyers, and the Kamikaze class is sometimes referred to as the "Kiyokaze class" to distinguish it from the earlier World War I-era destroyer class of the same name. Obsolete by the beginning of the Pacific War, the Kamikazes were relegated to mostly secondary roles. Most ultimately were lost to U.S. submarines.
Kamikaze underway on 23 December 1922.
Kamikaze-class Oite group four destroyers, circa 1926.