"asakaze" escorted "niyo maru" toward manila. "haddo" hit "asakaze" with its last torpedo at 0800 23 august. as and "harder" approached to finish off the damaged destroyer (which had already sunk), they were intercepted at 0630 on 24 august by "cd no. 22" and the captured united states destroyer patrol boat no. 102. "harder" fired a salvo of torpedoes at "cd no. 22", and was spotted by a japanese aircraft which marked the location. "harder" was sunk at by "patrol boat no. 102" in an attack beginning at 0828.