Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-28069733-20170516200020/@comment-1637496-20170519150548

Selzeny wrote: It wasn't zel who asked your academic position.

Anyway, considering there's no actual definition as to what is a "DE" or a "PF" and that kaibokan seems to be something different themselves, i don't expect to see this argument end any time soon. While there wasn't an official definition the relation between DE and PF can be reconstructed as one between "high end" and "low end" escort ships, WWII-era American DE and PF were close in terms of size and armament, but DE were built to naval standards, while PF were built to civilian standards. On the other shore of the Pacific one can reconstruct a similar high end vs low end relation in the IJN between the kaibokan and the Matsu class (de facto) second line destroyers.