sentences:  On 20 November, he was given command of the destroyer "Yukikaze", among the few Imperial Navy ships to survive the war, and assigned to repatriation duties, returning troops to Japan from overseas.Before Hashimoto could begin his new duties, however, he was summoned by the United States military to be a witness for the prosecution in the court-martial against "Indianapolis" commander Captain Charles B. McVay III, who was on trial on charges of negligence leading to the ship's sinking.On 9 December 1945 he was transported from Tokyo to Oakland, California aboard an aircraft of the Naval Air Transport Service.