Hello,
It was a little confused for me, so I organized it based on this book for miself. This book describes in detail.
恵隆之介 敵兵を救助せよ! Rescue the enemies! written by Megumi Ryunosuke
Partially available on the internet.
http://www.bushido-seishin.com/outline/story.html
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Executor sank at 12:50 at 12:50 on March 1st..
Ships other than Inazuma pursued Encounter and Pope.
Inazuma rescued 375 survivors of Exeter.
Encounter sank at 13:30.
Pope sank at 15:40.
Ikazuchi, who was on alert nearby, found numerous survivors of Exeter and Encounter on March 2.
LCDR Kudo ordered, "All crew members except the first turret should do rescue work."
Ikazuchi rescued 422 men, including CO / EO of Executor and CO of Encounter.
Royal Navy survivors boarding Ikazuchi
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Royal Navy survivors on Ikazuchi
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At March 3rd Ikazuchi on alert found survivors of Pope got on 8 cutters and 7 rubber boats. Ikazuchi sent a signal saying, "Get in me," but Pope survivors refused and demanded that they be towed. This towing had to slow down the Ikazuch speed and could be hit by torpedoes from enemy submarines. When she contacted the headquarters of VADM Takahashi Ibo, She was ordered to "Stop the rescue and join them", so Ikazuchi obeyed it. On the next day, Inazuma replaced Ikazuchi found Pope survivors again. Perhaps because of exhaustion, 151 Pope survivors boarded Inazuma obediently. Some of Pope's survivers blamed this "rescue interruption" after the war. But was that so? "Rescue work" was done by stopping our ship. During this time she was a good target for enemy submarines. They were dangerous area where 7 Japanese ships were sunk by enemy submarines from February 27th to March 1st. Both Ikazuchi and Inazuma performed dangerous rescue work for "seamanship".
Pope survivors on cutters and rubber boats
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Pope survivors on Inazuma
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