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Post by Swampy on Jun 6, 2018 11:53:22 GMT -5
Military.com has a niece piece about the vessel.The Yamato, still the world's biggest battleship, had a chance during the Philippines campaign to destroy the beachhead, but the commander thought he was facing a greater force than he did and turned around. I think he was saving his ship to fight another day, because I wonder if he, like many others, knew that the end was inevitable. But, in any case, spending time to destroy the beachhead could have meant lingering long enough for the US carrier planes to come over with their torpedoes, and he had no air cover.
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Post by Sir John on Jun 6, 2018 12:11:43 GMT -5
I am sure he learned the Japanese lesson off Malaya, when the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were sunk by unopposed aircraft on 10th Dec 1941.
SJ
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Post by hornet32 on Jun 6, 2018 14:52:07 GMT -5
The Japs were good at making transistor radios and bad movies they should have stuck with that .
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Post by Sir John on Jun 6, 2018 16:40:49 GMT -5
"The Japs were good at making transistor radios"
Not in 1945 they weren't.
SJ
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Post by Sir John on Jun 6, 2018 16:47:19 GMT -5
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Post by Sir John on Jun 6, 2018 17:20:19 GMT -5
Yamato debris field. Attachments:
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Post by Swampy on Jun 6, 2018 17:58:02 GMT -5
I am sure he learned the Japanese lesson off Malaya, when the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were sunk by unopposed aircraft on 10th Dec 1941. SJ I was thinking the same thing. |
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Post by hornet32 on Jun 6, 2018 18:54:36 GMT -5
The Yamato was 10 times better than that junk the Empire had ..
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Post by Sir John on Jun 6, 2018 19:10:19 GMT -5
I think in a one on one battle between Yamato and Missouri, the US ship would have been sunk fairly easily.
Simply because of range.
SJ
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Post by Swampy on Jun 6, 2018 20:36:17 GMT -5
The Yamato was 10 times better than that junk the Empire had .. Agreed - look at the HMS Hood - one hit and it just blew up. And the Prince of Wales and Repulse weren't that great either, as the Japanese showed off Malaya. |
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Post by hornet32 on Jun 6, 2018 20:38:26 GMT -5
there were only 3 survivors from the Hood it went up that fast ..
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Post by Sir John on Jun 6, 2018 21:40:32 GMT -5
The problem for the 'Hood' was deck armour. Too much on the hull and not enough on the deck, and the hit was a lucky one in that it went straight into the magazine.
I cannot recall any US battleship that ever went one on one with another battleship.
SJ
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Post by Swampy on Jun 7, 2018 0:28:48 GMT -5
I cannot recall any US battleship that ever went one on one with another battleship. The US Civil War saw the two iron dreadnought go one on one, and it was a draw, as far as I know. But purely one on one would be rare for any navy, because they often fight in groups. Wikipedia has a list of major battles, among them the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal and the Battle of Leyte Gulf, both of which ended up in American victories. And don't forget that the Battle of the River Plate had one German battleship against a bunch of British ones, so that wasn't one on one either. |
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Post by Sir John on Jun 7, 2018 0:39:39 GMT -5
The Graf Spee was a "pocket battleship", actually a heavy cruiser of 6x 11" guns. The RN squadron was the 8" HMS Exter, the 6" HMNZS Achilles, and the 6" HMS Ajax. The 8" on one side and the other 2 on the opposite side.
All endured severe damage from the 11" shells.
SJ
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