Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-28069733-20170514083426/@comment-32000657-20170514120811

Tsubakura wrote: I have the following interesting point NegZer0 has raised in the reddit thread here. Apparently, he also claims that DE are not destroyers.  >In the massively unlikely event that they did add them and they were labeled 'escort' on their card as well

Knowing Tanaka, seeing that he put Kasuga Maru/Taiyou as a CVL, it's actually far more likely than NegZer0  thinks.

On a related note: http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/index_ships_list.php

So DEs were also called "escorts"?