Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Bayan babban harin jirgin sama na Amurka a kan babban sansanin Japan a Truk (Operation Hailstone) a 1944, an ba Admiral Hara aikin maye gurbin Admiral Masami Kobayashi a matsayin kwamandan jami'in Jafananci na "4th Fleet", kodayake a zahiri ya ba da umarnin sansanin ƙasa a Truk ba tare da wani jirgin ruwa da aka ba shi ba. Rundunar sojan Amurka ta bar Truk a baya a cikin wani yanki na baya don "ya bushe a kan itacen inabi" a cikin kadaici, maimakon a mamaye shi kuma ya mallake shi. (Wannan shi ne abin da ya faru da yawancin sansanonin Japan a tsibirin Pacific, ciki har da babba a Rabaul da kuma da yawa a New Guinea.) An kama Admiral Hara a Truk ba tare da ƙarfafawa ba ko sabbin kayayyaki duk hanyar ta hanyar
Jafananci sun mika wuya a ranar 2 ga Satumba, 1945.