Talk:Yuudachi/@comment-71.178.248.74-20160323030049/@comment-93.143.142.93-20160719022712

Yuudachi was spotted and fired upon by USN Portland after the sunrise - at about 06:30. At that time Yuudachi was a hulk, abandoned many hours ago, with all her remaining crew aboard Samidare and far away from the scene.

USS Portland's Outlooks reported seeing white flag on Yuudachi's mast (what they actually saw was the "sail" Yuudachi's crew made earier with hammocks). Right after that the Captain issued order to:"Sink that MF!". (That guy was really pissed by the way - Portland was sailing in circles for like four hours, unable to properly participate in the battle during the night  - since Portland's rudder ate one of Yuudachi's torpedoes during her charge)

Basically, that action was just a needless waste of ammo, and possibly even needless destroying of a vessel that could be used by USN (tho this is unlikely, as, from what i understand, Yuudachi's boiler room was flooded and her engines knocked out and badly damaged - it would probably be to bothersome and expensive to repair her).

And let's not forget that Portland's captain reported later to his superiors that Yuudachi was sailing and fighting under white flag - a notorious lie, as at the time Yuudachi participated in the battle, it was pitch black night with heavy rain over the Iron Bottom Sound. Altho in naval terms, Yuudachi was fighting at melee ranges, those were quite some ranges for observing flags on an enemy DD under those weather conditions.