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*Like the Tone and Abukuma class, when used as modernization fodder Amatsukaze is one of the few destroyers that give a boost to all four stats.
 
*Like the Tone and Abukuma class, when used as modernization fodder Amatsukaze is one of the few destroyers that give a boost to all four stats.
 
*Survived a torpedo attack from the USS Redfin which blew off her bow after setting off her forward magazine and killed 80 of her crew; the rest of her crew abandoned her under the assumption she was too heavily damaged. She was found still afloat six days later by a Japanese patrol plane and was towed back to Singapore to be fitted with a temporary bow.
 
*Survived a torpedo attack from the USS Redfin which blew off her bow after setting off her forward magazine and killed 80 of her crew; the rest of her crew abandoned her under the assumption she was too heavily damaged. She was found still afloat six days later by a Japanese patrol plane and was towed back to Singapore to be fitted with a temporary bow.
*Her name means "heavenly wind."
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*Her name means "a wind blowing high in the sky".
 
*Sunk in action by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Forces USAAF], April 6, 1945 near Amoy (now Xiamen), China ([http://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Japanese_destroyer_Amatsukaze&params=24_30_N_118_10_E_ 24°30′N 118°10′E])
 
*Sunk in action by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Forces USAAF], April 6, 1945 near Amoy (now Xiamen), China ([http://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Japanese_destroyer_Amatsukaze&params=24_30_N_118_10_E_ 24°30′N 118°10′E])
 
*Scuttled April 10, 1945
 
*Scuttled April 10, 1945
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