Yeah, I bet it wasn’t at the time! ….but what a great yarn

Fusō 100% took more damage from multiple bombs from aircraft flown off Enterprise and multiple torps from 2 separate destroyer attacks. The bombs that hit Fusō caused significant damage, one of which hit below decks hitting her 2nd magazine. Three American destroyers launched torpedoes at 03:00 that morning, hitting Fusō at 03:08 and forcing her to fall out of formation the issue here is that we don't know how many hit, but this was the first salvo fired at her. Around 03:11, the destroyers Monssen and Killen fired their torpedoes, one or two of which hit Fusō amidships. The resulting damage temporarily slowed the ship down, gave her a list to port, and forced the flooding of the magazines for the two aft turrets. She would then sink. But, who knows how many torps hit in the first run. She was already slow and easier to hit with bombs from the aircraft. Yamashiro was also attacked by aircraft, but very minimal damage. Around 20 sailors on Yamashiro were killed by strafing and rocket attacks, and the ship listed by almost 15 degrees after a bomb's near miss damaged the hull and flooded the starboard bilge, until counter-flooding in the port bilge righted the ship. If we actually take a look at the USA ships that fired, we will see that only a couple shells were needed to take her down. It was the fire that claimed her, which unsurprisingly with her crew manning every gun going shooting at all targets around them trying to save the other ships in formation, fire control teams would have been severely limited. Six battleships formed a battle line; the Pearl Harbor veteran West Virginia was the first to open fire a minute later, scoring at least one hit with 16-inch (410 mm) shells in the first 20,800-meter (22,700 yd) salvo, followed by Tennessee and California. Hampered by older radar equipment, Maryland joined the fight late, Pennsylvania never fired, and Mississippi managed to fire exactly one salvo-the last of the engagement. The Australian heavy cruiser HMAS Shropshire also had radar problems and did not begin firing until 03:56. The first rounds hit the forecastle and pagoda mast, and soon, the entire battleship appeared to be ablaze. USS West Virginia with her first salvo was the one that got hits with her 16" and were the ones that doomed her to fire. Literally 04:00 Yamashiro turned to get her 4 main guns in on the action, 4 minutes later she was doomed at 04:04. Fusō 100% suffered more damage, in fact Fusō sinking was the perfect demonstration of how deadly destroyers are and how deadly aircraft are, which everyone learned fast aircraft were the new super weapon making BB obsolete.

The American bbs present where almost as out dated as yamashiro and fuso. The American standerds were built around the same time as the fuso class. There direct American equivalent being the Pennsylvanias. The American standerds (including the Pennsylvanias) were laid down all through ww1 and Immediate post war, till the Washington and London

@@robertstone9988 Except they were massivly upgraded after Pearl Harbor to be roughly comparible to modern ones in terms of armor protection, radar, AA firepower, and whatever else possible. (Except for speed, which was impossible.) Yeah, they were dated, but they were still far more useful then those of Japan.

@@rhedosaurus2251 they were more modernized than the poor yamashiro and fuso but they were still 2nd line older ships that were not even close to the capability of the new fast battle ships like the Washington, NC, South Dakota, Alabama, New Jersey and Iowa. Nore would they stand up to any modern battle ships of other nations. Yamato would have crushed even 2 or 3 standerds at one time. I thank a Bismarck or sharnhorst would have given a stander a run for her money. Modernized or not. That's why the standerds were still used mostly for shore bombardment and escort duties in the north sea. The Colorados and the Tennessees were the best and newest of the standerds and equivalent to a nagato or if you compare it to other allies ships the hood or nel/rods.

@@robertstone9988 I didn't say that they were perfect. Nor do I think they would have stood a chance against Yammy, at least unless you had 5-6 of them. But they still had a fairly heavy amount of AA firepower and could take a kamikaze hit better then most ships. IIRC, Maryland got hit by an Okha manned kamikaze rocket. Besides another battleship, what other US naval warship could survive that?

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Wrong. Pennsylvania was indeed damaged in the attack. Also she was not modernized and contributed little to the battle. The hits the killed Yamashiro came from West Virginia, California, and Tennessee-all fully modernized with radar-directed big guns.

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Shooting the messenger doesn't change facts. It takes very little effort to learn what I posted and would improve supposedly historical videos more than the Nth script editing cycle. But if you prefer clickbait superlatives to actual facts ...

They probably couldn't believe that the ships they sunk or heavily damaged were out there kicking their arse!

@@bobbys4327 actually, they were in fact shocked.

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