Japanese destroyer Kiyonami
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was a of the Imperial Japanese Navy
Imperial Japanese Navy
The Imperial Japanese Navy was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1869 until 1947, when it was dissolved following Japan's constitutional renunciation of the use of force as a means of settling international disputes...
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On 12 July 1943, Kiyonami was on a troop transport run to Kolombangara
Kolombangara
Kolombangara is an island in the New Georgia Islands group of the Solomon Islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean...
. In the Battle of Kolombangara
Battle of Kolombangara
The Battle of Kolombangara was a naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the night of 12/13 July 1943, off Kolombangara in the Solomon Islands.-Background:...
, she contributed torpedo
Torpedo
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es to the spreads that sank , and damaged and .
On 20 July Kiyonami was on another troop transport run to Kolombangara. She was sunk by U.S. Army
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B-25s while rescuing the crew of , 42 miles (78 km) north-northwest of Kolombangara (07°13′S 156°45′E). There were no survivors from among the entire combined Kiyonami and Yugure crews of 468 men.