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Yukikaze's captain even saluted Johnston as she went down.

>[...]could see the sailors lined up by the rail, dressed sharply in khakis and brightly polished brown boots. "They were watching us as we watched them."[...]
>"It appeared to me that every man on her deck was standing at attention, like a muster, giving us one big salute." As the Japanese warship [Yukikaze] slid by [Johnston], a smartly dressed officer was on the wing of the bridge, standing erect and, indeed, saluting. "As she eased by us," Carter wrote, "I'm sure of one thing ... she appreciated a fighting lady ... USS Johnston."
>Another Japanese crewman was filming them with a handheld movie camera. Another flipped his thumb to his nose and delivered a raspberry. As the ship passed on by, a sailor standing on the fantail tossed an object in Carter's direction. The canister was too big to be a grenade and far too small to be a depth charge. It was a large can of tomatoes. Carter retrieved the offering, examined it, and noticed the label indicating it had been packed in Arkansas. "Three years of war and they were still eating USA canned tomatoes."