Talk:Makigumo/@comment-112.216.71.188-20140204112336

Sadly, her crews are responsible for murder of prisoners of war.

At battle of Midway, SBD pilot Ensign Frank W. O'Flaherty and his radio-gunner Bruno P. Gaido, after their plane was forced to ditch in the sea due to lack of fuel, were spotted and fished from the sea by the crew of the Japanese destroyer Makigumo. After interrogation, and when it was clear that the Japanese had suffered a disastrous defeat in the Battle of Midway, O'Flaherty and Gaido were murdered by the angry and vindictive Japanese. The two unfortunate American airmen were bound with ropes, tied to weighted fuel cans, and then thrown overboard to drown.