Battle of Sunda Strait
In early 1942, "Harukaze" was assigned to escorting troop convoys to Malaya and French Indochina. Assigned to Operation J (the invasion of Java in the Netherlands East Indies), she participated at the Battle of Sunda Strait on 1 March 1942. During that battle, she launched torpedoes at the cruisers and and took damage to her bridge, engine room and rudder in return, with three crewmen killed and over fifteen injured.