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The Yamashiro should have been scrapped in the 1930s. She was an experimental and peculiar piece of naval technology, born from a volatile era in maritime development which had no place in the battlefields of World War 2.
However, an unexpected chain of events kept her and her World War 1-era sister ships from the scrapyard. Instead, it thrust them into the Pacific theater of the war’s decisive closing stages. In a last-ditch effort to change the outcome, Japan sent out these aging warriors in a bid for survival.
This set the stage for a dramatic and fierce confrontation in the Surigao Strait. The Yamashiro and her sister ship Fuso faced off against the American battleships California, West Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania—vessels resurrected from the depths of Pearl Harbor.
In the predawn darkness of October 25, 1944, the seas churned as the last battleship-to-battleship clash erupted. Outgunned and outclassed, the Yamashiro and her crew were prepared to fight to their last breath and meet their fate with honor.
The American fleet attempted a devastating naval tactic known as “Crossing the T.” The battle’s outcome and the honor of the valiant Yamashiro were entangled in this daring move, which the Americans had not effectively used since 1898.
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It's tragic the highlight of her career couldn't have been her service to the Japanese people in a time of tragedy, rather than an obsolete, sitting duck in a shooting gallery.
Good episode. I wondered where FUSO met her fate. But you missed the fun of providing a graphic on crossing the “T”
While Fuso was the first Dreadnought-type battleship constructed by Japan, Japan had previously built 3 of the 4 Kongo class battle cruisers, similar in scale and degree of design challenge.
WRT Treaty compliance, the IJN demilitarized the Kawachi-class Settsu (Kawachi had sunk due to a magazine explosion in 1918) and the Kongo-class Hiei. Settsu was used for training, as was Hiei until she was restored and upgraded. Before Yamato came into commission the IJN had the 4 uprated Kongos, the 2 Fusos, the 2 Ises, and the 2 Nagatos. The Fusos and Ises did really become obsolescent until it became clear that the ne capital ship was aircraft carriers, which steamed much faster, and the 2 Nagatos were marginal, not fast enough to keep up at full speed, but almost.
Strong book recommendation, Anthony Tully's "The Battle of Surigao Strait". Yamashiro was also damaged by destroyer torpedoes prior to USN battleships and cruisers opening fire.
When one considers how the Yamashiro had no chance to win and how outclassed it was, the old battleship actually fought pretty well. It not only took a ridicluous amount of punishment-far more then what her sister ship, Fuso, did-but her aim was respectable as well.
Another Yamashiro is a famous sushi bar high on a hilltop overlooking Hollywood, CA.
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The only problem with the Japanese navy is they wud of never been at yhe pinnacle of naval developments & ahead of game as what ppl dont seen understand up until post ww1 when the Japanese fell out with Britain 90% of all the major war ships of Japan was built in Britain & they only had the ability to built low tonnage ship etc until they made the change to build facilities to do so & still never the capacity the out produce anyone
USS Pennsylvania (BB38), which was not on Battleship Row during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941, but, rather, in drydock some distance away from Ford Island, received only minimal damage during the infamous attack. It is therefore inaccurate to include the Pennsylvania among those American battleships “resurrected from the waters of Pearl Harbor.” BB-38 was not sunk, nor seriously damaged even. Its having been put into drydock for repairs served it well on Dec 7, 1941.
You forgot USS Mississippi BB-41. She was not at Pearl Harbor, but she should have been mentioned.
At 05:29 that must be Yokosuka because that big crane was still there but no longer used and the shops behind it were still used and very active. That pier is where the Kitty Hawk was always moored at. I was stationed at Yokosuka from 2000-2003
It's funny that the USA acts like it was a hard bitter fight naval wise against the Japanese.
In reality, the British, with their gifts thanks to operation tizard, set it to ultra easy mode for the USA.
The only thing that was tough was the island invasions, which some didn't even need to happen. Just gave the Japanese an easier death while losing a ridiculous amount of men.
USA, during Pearl, went from fighting an equal adversary to fighting a one-armed blind man.
The Japanese relied on Dye to range shots in. Compared to the USA that relied on British technology that did everything for them with their fire systems.
Literally playing battleships with aim assist on lmfao.
The Japanese naval leaders were certainly fearless, going in with manual fire against multiple assist with guns set up across the T.