Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A lokacin yakin Pacific, yawan lalacewar masu hallaka na Japan ya kasance mai girma saboda tsananin, gwagwarmaya mai tsawo da kuma buƙatar yin amfani da su don safarar kayayyaki ga garuruwan tsibirin Japan da aka warwatse. A farkon yakin, "Yukikaze" ya shiga cikin mamaye Philippines da Dutch East Indies. Ta shiga cikin yakin Midway, Santa Cruz, Leyte Gulf
, da kuma Philippine Sea, kazalika da wani dogon lokaci a kan Guadalcanal sojojin gudanar da kuma na sojan ruwa yaƙe-yaƙe a kusa da cewa tsibirin. "Yukikaze" kuma ya tsira daga Operation Ten-Go, lokacin da aka nutsar da jirgin yaƙi. Tsakanin waɗannan manyan alkawurran, "Yukikaze" ya halarci aikin rakiyar jiragen ruwa a cikin wucewa, musamman a cikin sake fasalin jirgin sama wanda aka kammala sabon jirgin ruwan da jirgin ruwan Amurka ya yi masa kuma ya nutse. Ta shafe watanni na ƙarshe na yakin a aikin tsaro a tashar jiragen ruwa na Japan kuma ya tsira daga hare-haren iska na Allied.