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Yahagi usually lead a Destroyer squadron as a command ship. It's final battle was in this capacity commanding the screening destroyer group for the Yamato in its final mission to Okinawa "Operation Ten-Ichi-go" June 6-7 1945.
Yahagi was hit in the engine room by a torpedo around 12.45 in the first wave of attacks against the strike force, stopping her dead in the water.
A sitting duck she was hit by multiple torpedoes and Bombs and capsized and sank at approx. 2.05pm June 7th. taking 445 of her crew of 736 down with her.