Usio's IJN Sendai. A Sendai class light cruiser, commissioned Apr 1924, Yangtze River and China patrol from 1925. Involved in the Malaya invasion, then the Solomon Islands from July 1942. On 2 November 1943, at the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, Sendai took major 6" fire from USS Cleveland, Columbia, Montpelier and Denver and sank the following morning.
Submitted by Usio
Submitted by Usio