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Remember, Yukikaze lived well into the seventies, and I think the US and Japan were already allies by then. Same thing with a few other US ships. Even if they aren't around anymore, a few ships lived long enough to see the US and Japan become Allies before being sent to the Breakers. Let's not forget the museum ships.

And then there's Operation Crossroads, where ships from both sides of the war were placed on the chopping board. Arkansas and Pennsylvania, for example. They were sunk during/after O.C. like Nagato and Prinz Eugen.