IJN Yahagi - A Doomed Final Stand
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- Опубліковано 15 лис 2024
- In today's video, we look at one of Japan's lesser-known ships. The light cruiser Yahagi, probably best known for sailing with Yamato on the doomed final voyage.
This was a ship with a short career. Only about a year of active service, although it was an eventful one. From the Marianas Turkey Shoot, to the Battle of Leyte Gulf. And then, finally, Operation Ten-Go and the end of Japan's offensive naval power.
An exciting life, to be sure.
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Like you said Tamechi Hara's book is DEFINITELY worth reading! It's a great account of WW2 naval action AND a rare POV from the Japanese side too!
Thanks, I'll try to get the book 📖
Hara's book "Japanese Destroyer Captain" is excellent. Take it from me , a retired United States Naval Officer. I read it while on a Destroyer in the Persian Gulf .
Very pleasing appearance. Has a nice balanced look.
Great work as always telling the lesser known stories!
The agano class cruisers are the prettiest of japan's ships though agano had a different style of bridge than her sisters yahagi sakawa and noshiro. Thankyou for this video shame when they found yamato's wreck no one went search for yahagi.
I read the book by her last Captain, who came up in destroyers. Tameichi Hara, he passed on in 1990.
The title of the English version of the book is "Japanese Destroyer Captain". It is a great book, which I have also read.
The book is the excellent "Japanese Destroyer Captain".
read the book twice, it was an excellent book
I read it when I was very young, and it was a fascinating read.
He truly cared about his crew. Wanting the younger men to go home and live their lives.
Don’t recall this one so nice to learn about it
First. Very well done. Thank you for presenting an outstanding review of this ship, her class, and her history.
From a design only point of view, her speed, armor, weapons, and displacement make her look more like a "large destroyer", than a light cruiser. What ships was she and her class "designed" to fight? Certainly not an American "machine gun" light cruiser or anything larger armed with 8" rifles. Better protected than most DD's, she might have been a match for a Fletcher class DD, but only before we fixed the Mk 14. Her speed, the "Long Lance", and that 2.5 inches of armor, made her a ship to respect, but not one that could actually hunt down and sink an enemy cruiser.
I highly recommend covering Tameichi Hara's destroyers, Amatsukaze and Shigure, both of which, particularly Amatsukaze, saw amazing careers under his command
My favorite tier 4 in WoWSL.
12km torpedo range. Slow torpedoes. You launch, leave, wait, and pray and when they hit you're normally bringing your HE to bear from behind a Island and immediately taking advantage of the 85% of people who immediately repair that flood.
You do a fantastic job at these videos young man.
Great video Skynea, I like the look of the Agano class cruisers.
beautiful ship
She was a beautiful vessel. Used as unintended. Read the book Destoyer Captain and you get a great appreciation that not all Japanese captains were suicidal or didn't care about their men and respected their.
Yahagi was doomed but fulfilled her role despite the odds.
I built this ship in 1/200 scale from paper. A beautiful kit and shows how graceful her lines and Oyodo's really were.
The engineering of Japanese ships, especially their destroyers and cruisers were A level. The few destroyers transferred to China lived long lives.
Going to the Marianas was a second choice, Yamato, Mushasi, Yahagi and a few destroyers 1st was headed to Biak island, my dad was in the 476th anti aircraft division. On Biak.
I've Audio'd Hara's Book and I give it my Thumbs Up, it was a very interesting read
Captain Hara's book "Destroyer Captain" is one of the best books ever written about WW2. Few people in any navy have been in as many battles at sea. An easy to get book, very popular.
Most Japanese light cruisers were 4-stack relics from the twenties. The Agano class were their only modern light cruisers. They were light on armament, but they were built for a particular role, which was done by the time she joined the war.
Good job you are doing great.
She look like a decent destroyer leader, but a failure as a true cruiser. Any conventional cruiser of that era, will out-gun her and have more protection.
To be fair....she wasn't meant to fight cruisers.
I think Hornfisher (may he rest in peace) vastly over stated the damage done by the destroyers at Samar in Tin Can Sailors. It was his first book and later works were much more balanced
Yeah he just parroted Morrison’s account which failed to give enough credit to the CVEs, as later historians like Jon Parshall pointed out.
Yea, he's very good, but not perfect. I read his account of the 1st naval battle of Guadalcanal, and there were a few contentions. Notably, he definitely overstated Asagumo, Murasame, and Samidare's contributions to the battle, notably stating that Murasame crippled USS Juneau and not Amatsukaze, and that they sank USS Laffey and USS Cushing (both sunk by Yukikaze and Teruzuki in actuality, probably solely by Yukikaze in Laffey's case).
Anyway the IJN still excels as artificial reefs!
Quirks and intresting Service. Crazy guy in the Park?
Those two planes amidships make great targets and provide lots of fuel for serious fires.
That's a lot of Firepower on a small hull.
Something like HMAS Sydney ? Light cruiser ?
Built the old 1/700 Yahagi Tamiya model for my little brother sadly it didn’t survive long
Posting this video on Yahagi's launch day, hmm.
Hornfischer is a poor source because he was too intent on constructing a heroic narrative to weed out his sources' mistakes, errors or confusion. He never verified anything against Japanese primary sources and a lot of what his American sources sincerely believed has since been proven wrong. A far, far better source is Robert Lundgren's "The World Wonder'd: What really Happened off Samar" which uses both US and Japanese primary sources and paints a far more accurate picture of the battle by constructing a timeline that summarizes the actions both sides took as they recorded it. And guess what? Both sides not only overcounted their hits they consistently misidentified their targets because they could only guess which ships they were shooting at.
Another important point: Japan completed five light cruisers + 3 cruiser-sized training ships during the war. The USN built 52 not including the 12 ships laid down as cruisers and completed as carriers.
The Yahagi, aka the floating sieve
Buh ah
What a very little handson ship..
Yes first!
It's such a shame how many IJN servicemen survived the war.
What? Most everyday sailors were just doing as told. You're upset that half of Yahagi's crew survived. Put yourself in their shoes. You would have stood up to command and said no. I think not. There were regular heros on all sides, politics aside.
Very interesting as usual!!
I always though the image at 13:55 is the very definition of overkill