Arashi

Trivia

 * Arashi means 'storm' or 'tempest'.
 * The real life Arashi is best known for her inadvertent role in the sinking of 1st Carrier Division aircraft carriers Akagi and Kaga in the Battle of Midway and thus changing the course of the war: the destroyer had been involved in chasing off the submarine USS Nautilus, and having separated from them, was steaming at full speed to rejoin the carrier fleet. Arashi's long wake due to her speed made her highly visible to a somewhat lost US dive bomber squadron from the USS Enterprise that had been launched to search for the IJN carrier force. At the very limits of their range, and with squadron members suffering mechanical failures, they used her wake to shadow the destroyer all the way back to the fleet. With Akagi and Kaga's fighters being involved in intercepting another torpedo bomber squadron elsewhere, the US aircraft were able to attack the carriers uncontested, resulting in the sinking of the 1st Carrier Division, and heralding the end of Imperial Japanese air power in the Pacific.