 The destroyer Cmdr. Richardson (Clark Gable (qv)) is obsessed with  finding, the "Akikaze", was an actual Imperial Japanese Navy  destroyer. She was commissioned on September 16, 1920, and was quite  old for ship standards by the time World War II began. As such, she  was used as a fast troop transport and convoy escort. On November 3,  1944 she was escorting the carrier "Junyo" and light cruiser "Kiso"  toward Brunei in the Philippines. The American submarine "U.S.S.  Pintado (SS