Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20180328015558/@comment-26374503-20180328151610

after some reading in wikipedia :

An escort destroyer with United States Navy hull classification symbol DDE was a destroyer (DD) modified for and assigned to a fleet escort role

"Escort destroyers" should not be confused with the cheaper, slower, less capable, and more lightly armed World War II "destroyer escorts" [1] 

Destroyer escort (DE) was the United States Navy mid-20th-century classification for a 20-knot (23 mph) warship designed with endurance to escort mid-ocean convoys of merchant marine ships. Kaibōkan were designed for a similar role in the Imperial Japanese Navy. [2]

Kaibōkan (海防艦, "sea defence ship") or coastal defense ship is a type of naval ship used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II for escort duty and coastal defense. The term escort ship is used by the United States Navy to describe this category of Japanese ships [3]

heres the thing :

shimushu,etorofu and hiburi card is "escort", so by using above statement escort ship = kaiboukan = destroyer escort but =//= escort destroyer

TL:DR

imo, in this taffy 3 case the dev use 護衛駆逐艦 to refer the DDs intead of the DE (samuel)

in addition, the order given to johnston to protect gabby bae suit the devs description

and for the termination, i think we can still use DE to refer to kaiboukan (hiburi etc) and DDE for escort destroyer IF they're found to have different mechanism like our CV and armored CV