USS Richard P. Leary (DD-664) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy. In 1959, the ship was transferred to the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force and renamed Yūgure. The destroyer remained in service with the Japanese until 1974, when she was returned to the US, who then sold the ship for scrap in 1976.
USS Richard P. Leary underway in April 1944
Late 1800s illustration of Leary
Richard P. Leary alongside the torpedoed Honolulu off Leyte on 20 October 1944
Japanese destroyers Teruzuki and Yūgure at Guam, 1962.
USS Heywood L. Edwards (DD-663) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named after Lieutenant Commander Heywood L. Edwards (1905–1941), captain of the destroyer USS Reuben James, the first U.S. Navy ship sunk in World War II. Following the war, the ship was transferred to Japan and renamed Ariake. The ship served with the Japanese until 1974 and was scrapped in 1976.
USS Heywood L. Edwards off Boston on 5 April 1944
Heywood L. Edwards transfers a sailor to another ship, in 1944-1945
Men onboard Heywood L. Edwards in February 1945
Ariake in the 1960s