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Old 11-02-2016, 02:25 AM
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Originally Posted by dicksbro
Didn't know any of the western powers ordered any ships from Japan. I'd never heard that before.


Yes, by then Japan had long been involved in the First World War, seizing many of Germany's former possessions in the Pacific. Japan's involvement was mainly a naval contribution, either directly when Japan sent destroyers to maintain anti-submarine patrols in the Mediterranean, or indirectly, as above. BTW, there is a Wikipedia article on the destroyers in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabe-class_destroyer
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