Yamagumo was the sixth of ten Asashio-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the mid-1930s under the Circle Two Supplementary Naval Expansion Program. Immediately into the war, Yamag
Yamagumo underway on 15 September 1939.
Yamagumo anchored off Fujinagata after commissioning, 17 January 1938
Yamagumo moored in Sukumo Bay, 1940
Shōji Nishimura was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.