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There were many other survivors who made it ashore after the sinkings, Maybe as many as 150, it's just soon after coming ashore the survivors encountered the indigenous people of the islands who after 4 years of Japanese occupation were quite happy to treat the Japanese to dinner, as the main course...no... I'm not kidding, look it up.
A ship of war is a deathtrap when it sinks - it usually does so while your allies are retreating and your enemies are firing at you, so that doesn't help either. Even if your enemies are willing to pick you up, you are not save: When the British carrier HMS Glorious sank along with the destroyer HMS Ardent, German ships tried to come to the rescue of the crews but were intercepted by another British destroyer, HMS Acasta which had hid itself in a smokescreen and subsequently managed to damage and scare away the German battleships (and to sink in the action). Result: Three sinking British ships with 1519 crewmen dead in the water. 39 men were saved by Norwegian civilian vessels, one by a German scout plane, none by the British whose radio-silence was so effective that they realised that they had lost 3 ships when it was broadcasted on German radio.
Another fun fact. The Yamashiro was chosen as the Imperial Flagship after Emperor Hirohito ascended to the throne, and he made his first official state voyage aboard her.
The end result of increasing targeting effectiveness without a proper superstructure. The IJN would later actually avert the whole issue with the Yamato-class.
The idea was to put important facilities such as map rooms, signal posts, artillery spotters, radio equipment, etc in as small an area as possible so as to both unclutter the deck and leave room for potentially more guns down the road, a happy side effect was it improved long-range gunnery spotting, a downside was it made Fuso MUCH easier to see from a distance AND more recognizable... As well as making her and Yamashiro more top-heavy.
@@stevewixom9311 With a helmet and binoculars and a floatation vest to sclep all the way up and all the way down because our berthing spaces would be one above the keel... but man our thighs would be like Greek gods!
I had a tiny toy Fuso when I was a kid, maybe three inches long. Later I had a reproduction edition of the 1914 Jane's Fighting Ships, and it had a front plate of the builder's model of Fuso, not too surprising since by then I knew that Japan had been allied with Britain since 1902 and all of its early battleships had been built in Britain. And file footage of Fuso and Yamashiro shows up in just about every documentary about Japan in WWII and lots of WWII movies, and even once in an episode of McHale's Navy. And I see Fusos fairly often today--it's a line of trucks by Mitsubishi. They have a dealership in San Jose, not too far from where the Sharks play, about ten miles from where I live now.
By WW2 these ships were basically death traps for the sailors that were aboard them. The fact that 20 men survived the sinking of the two was probably due to the fact that they were in the pagoda masts and could easily see that the ship was sinking. Or if the ship capsized they were thrown away from the bulk of the ship sinking and wasn't pulled down in it's wake.
Aside from its interesting historical career, the Fuso is one of the mighty tier 6 BBs in WoWs that I will always remember! I remember 1 battle where I had nearly 200 k damage done and still lost vs another Fuso!
One time I had my spotter aircraft up at the beginning of the battle. Spotted an enemy Fuso at 20+kms away. Fired 3 full salvos. Each one had 1 citadel hit. The guy was so salty in chat throughout the game, he hunted me down but I manage to kill him in close range brawl.
What I like about the Fusos is that they also resemble a ship of the line in Battleship form, forming several rows of evenly spaced gun batteries along the length of the ship.
I think it’s been pretty conclusively worked out that the “splitting in two, with both halves remaining afloat” is at best a myth. Or possibly an illusion cause by the massive lake of burning oil she left on the surface. It seems to be felt that she took torpedo hits, swerved out of line and into the darkness, shortly thereafter rolling over to starboard and suffering a magazine explosion either while overturned on the surface, or shortly after she went under. Which wiped out whatever crew had made it into the water, and hadn’t been killed by the burning oil. The more remarkable thing is it was such a pitch black night, and with 2 of the escort destroyers exploding spectacularly in the darkness from torpedo hits, neither the Yamashiro ahead of her, nor the Mogami behind her even realized she had gone. They each though the other ship was the Fuso, closed up the distance, and motored on into the Straight, never realizing that they were down a Battleship.
That doesn't sound plausible. If there was burning oil on the surface it would seem that it would have been silhouette and a look out would have spotted the doomed battleship. However, I do believe that they would have continued on to the fate that awaited for them. Evidently on both ships there was a total of about 10 people topside & the rest below went down with the ship. Such is war.
I'd like to see a review of HMCS Haida. She was a Canadian tribal class destroyer of world war two and has a sterling war record. She is the last remaining member of the type, residing as a museum ship in Hamilton Ontario.
Naval gunnery would be a fascinating topic, not because artillery has been ignored, but areas like evolving technology in the 20th century for target acquisition, firing platform stabilization, non-radar based (optical) ranging and turret automation never have been treated with the interest reserved for gun caliber. An interesting video could be done on ship-borne radar, since that is what helped win the battle of the Atlantic against the U-boat fleet. Radar-based fire-control also hastened obsolescence of Japan's "pagoda"-style battleship superstructures. A particularly interesting aspect of ship-borne radar is how quickly the Kriegsmarine acquired radar of its own, despite British claims to have invented radar, itself.
Am I the only one that initially thought the Yamashiro was the ship sunk by USS Melvin on first listen? The Fuso is not explicitly mentioned and the commentary sounds like a description of a sequence of attacks against the Yamashiro. That aside, love your videos, especially the human voice ones as opposed to the robo-voices :)
October 25, 1944 was a sad day for both Navy's. American & Japanese. A lot of the Taffy 3 ships would be sunk & a the entire "Southern Force" of the Japanese were sunk. Oh, & the 10 survivors from each battleship would be caught by Phillipine guerrilla fighters & I don't think they fared very well. Those of Taffy 3 would spend 2-3 days in the water and eventually the survivors would be rescued. Although numerous died of injuries and shark attacks.
Is it possible for you to do a video on the Flower class Corvettes ? As I understand it, there is one left up in Canada as a museum, but have not the funds to go see her.
2:10 - I've often wondered - what are those diagonal structures on the side of the hull? You often see these on WW1 era battleships, but they don't seem to be there all the time. In the photos taken in the 1930s (e.g. 3:08), these structures are gone. What are they? Boarding ramps? Some sort of foldable platform for painters? (See 2:38)
Those are booms for anti-torpedo nets, they were supposed to be deployed when the ship was at anchor to stop torpedoes from hitting the ship. Ultimately they decided they were ineffective, which is why they don't appear on ships past a certain date.
USS Bennion (DD-662) launched the torpedoes that finished the Yamashiro off. Naval History Magazing - October 2010 Volume 24, Number 5 "Second Salvo at Surigao Strait" by Admiral James L. Holloway III, U.S. Navy (Retired) Link: www.usni.org/magazines/navalhistory/2010-10/second-salvo-surigao-strait
Ise and Hyugā didn't, as they sank in shallow waters. _Kongo_ I believed just exploded and fell apart. Possibly one of her sisters as well. Mutsu exploded as well.
While Japanese preferred firepower. But IMO it's more prudent to removed amidship turrets and use those spaces for both weight savings and more speed like Italian did.
I’ve always like the design of Japanese warships. Maybe it’s the crazy high superstructure, but there’s something excitingly dramatic and aggressive in their likes. I’m aware this seldom translated to glorious combat records.
Sorry if you have this video already and I just couldn't find it, but could I request a guide on the Orion class, and perhaps the idea of super-dreadnoughts in general? Once the human voice remasters are done anyway.
Didn't the Fuso and Yamashiro earned the reputation of being 'IJN's misfortune/unlucky BB's' because one, IJN sailors doesn't like to station there and two, they both sunk early during the battle of surigao strait and only 10 sailors on each ship survived
mazack00 The Imperial Japanese Navy wanted to attach rangefinding equipments higher, but they didn’t want to remove turrets to add a superstructure. Hence the insanely tall, thin mast.
mazack00 Would give a wide viewpoint, which was the point. It’s often said that radar made these high structures redundant, but radar also does better the higher it’s placed. The real problem with these things is that they are structurally weak.
They must have rolled excessively and been poor gun platforms given the ridiculous height of the superstructure, not surprised the both capsized. Poor sailors made to fight inadequate ships.
I play this ship in the war of warships free online game.. great ship with 12 guns of 14 inches in 6 turrets the only down side is, the main guns take 30 seconds to reload.. yes don't sound long? But when you got a madman in a fast cruiser or destroyer racing towards you at 30 Knots firing their 5 or 6 inch fast loading guns and torpedoes ever second matters.
Essentially no ship radar in use in WW II, and what there was they didn't really know how to use until near the end of the war. Also radio was little used, because it could draw unwanted attention. There was no GPS or for that matter any of the other older radio positioning systems in the Pacific. The only way you could know where you were for sure was taking a transit out on deck and shooting stars at sunrise or sunset. That didn't work well in the middle of a night engagement, especially when it was overcast or raining. Look up "Night engagement off Empress Augusta Bay" if you want to read about a real comedy of errors in a night battle. But the same sort of thing was common when dealing with the Tokyo Express.
All wars are absolutely riddled by friendly fire. Why recent skirmishes have been so... eye opening shall we say, due to a near complete lack of Blue on Blue action. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_friendly_fire_incidents is only SOME of them.
Yes. Friendly fire has been endemic to all battles. One other factor is that as weapons ranges have increased units at a distance have become harder to identify. One other factor is that - once one person or unit starts shooting at something - there is a pile on effect where everyone starts shooting at it. In the night battles off Guadalcanal one of the things that would happen is that if a ship caught fire - everyone would shoot at it. .
My favorite is in WWII, USA was doing a trial beach landing before DDAy and the same day on the same beach, the Brits were having a naval live fire exercise practice before DDAY... Needless to say, the lads from the USA took the short end of the stick that day. Plenty of times bombers unloaded over their own troops or allies as well killing thousands. @@BobSmith-dk8nw
The 10 survivors slowly climbed to the top of the pagoda masts, and then just swam away when the ship settled at the bottom of the ocean.
Fuso actually didn't break in two, according to a recent dive report.
The ship's hull was found mostly intact.
@Marcelo Henrique Soares da Silva You just have to hit right^^
@@NashmanNash you gotta hit both of these places:
-Under torpedo protection
-citadel, or possibly engines
@@t.r.i1032 Fix your tower, it’s hideous
Hence why Drach said it differs between which accounts is read, didn’t say the latter account was correct or not
@@Aelvir114
Yamato never actually had a pagoda mast, but a more solid tower mast with an extensive superstructure.
Japan: Yes I'd like to sail around in a skyscraper.
Shipyard: Say no more fam we got you
"We want to identify and engage targets beyond the horizon without radar or airplane radios"
Drachinifel is pumping out video like Americans ship production in WWII dang :o
But of much better quality.
Most of these are just remakes of robot voices.
@@jevinliu4658 well I only been subscribe for a month
@@blackrabbit212 Drachinifel is going to change it from "5 minute guide to warships" to "fletcher class video ###"
@@jevinliu4658 Why did he bother with those, since he's a fantastic narrator??
So a total of 20 survivors from the loss of both ships. Damn, that's brutal.
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There were many other survivors who made it ashore after the sinkings, Maybe as many as 150, it's just soon after coming ashore the survivors encountered the indigenous people of the islands who after 4 years of Japanese occupation were quite happy to treat the Japanese to dinner, as the main course...no... I'm not kidding, look it up.
A ship of war is a deathtrap when it sinks - it usually does so while your allies are retreating and your enemies are firing at you, so that doesn't help either. Even if your enemies are willing to pick you up, you are not save:
When the British carrier HMS Glorious sank along with the destroyer HMS Ardent, German ships tried to come to the rescue of the crews but were intercepted by another British destroyer, HMS Acasta which had hid itself in a smokescreen and subsequently managed to damage and scare away the German battleships (and to sink in the action).
Result: Three sinking British ships with 1519 crewmen dead in the water. 39 men were saved by Norwegian civilian vessels, one by a German scout plane, none by the British whose radio-silence was so effective that they realised that they had lost 3 ships when it was broadcasted on German radio.
@@abcdef-cs1jj thats definitely interesting....................
@@abcdef-cs1jj When the Brits went to pick up survivors from the Bismark they were chased off by a u-boat.
The mast must grow taller!
Japanese Engineers: "How high do you want the pagoda superstructure?"
"Imperial Japanese Navy: "Hai!"
Have to admit, I've always been fascinated by the Fuso...mainly because of that ghastly pagoda foremast.
I'm facinated by HMS Nelson and Rodney. For similar reasons, they just look so unique.
ghastly...more like beautiful. It's one of the things that draws me to loving the look of the ship.
@@crazymixture57 beautiful may be pushing it. Kongo are a bit more reasonable. It's just... special.
Another fun fact. The Yamashiro was chosen as the Imperial Flagship after Emperor Hirohito ascended to the throne, and he made his first official state voyage aboard her.
The Vickers 14" gun salesman got his paycheck from this class
Plus the Kongos and the Isseis
@@JohnnyFruehauf 32 for the Kongos, 24 for the Fusos, and 24 for the Ises. 80 guns in total.
You're sure putting a lot of work to re-voice these. Thanks Dracheinfel. =)
YES, thanks for the real human voice....much easier to follow.
I’d enjoy a run down on what is in those pagoda masts. They just seem like overkill and must really be fun to be in during rough seas.
Pagoda happens when you need to put additional things for modernization but don't want to remove a turret or two for the spaces.
The end result of increasing targeting effectiveness without a proper superstructure.
The IJN would later actually avert the whole issue with the Yamato-class.
The idea was to put important facilities such as map rooms, signal posts, artillery spotters, radio equipment, etc in as small an area as possible so as to both unclutter the deck and leave room for potentially more guns down the road, a happy side effect was it improved long-range gunnery spotting, a downside was it made Fuso MUCH easier to see from a distance AND more recognizable... As well as making her and Yamashiro more top-heavy.
with my luck my GQ station would have been on the very top level, man what a hike that would have been
@@stevewixom9311 With a helmet and binoculars and a floatation vest to sclep all the way up and all the way down because our berthing spaces would be one above the keel... but man our thighs would be like Greek gods!
I had a tiny toy Fuso when I was a kid, maybe three inches long. Later I had a reproduction edition of the 1914 Jane's Fighting Ships, and it had a front plate of the builder's model of Fuso, not too surprising since by then I knew that Japan had been allied with Britain since 1902 and all of its early battleships had been built in Britain. And file footage of Fuso and Yamashiro shows up in just about every documentary about Japan in WWII and lots of WWII movies, and even once in an episode of McHale's Navy.
And I see Fusos fairly often today--it's a line of trucks by Mitsubishi. They have a dealership in San Jose, not too far from where the Sharks play, about ten miles from where I live now.
Three inches long, so, what, a foot tall?
These older videos still hold up very well. Thank you for the content.
Pagoda masts 😍
Somehow both ugly *and* impractical. Amazing!
@@legogenius1667 they are beautiful you tasteless philistine 😤
@@christianhoffmann8607 The Iowa-class is beautiful. The Fuso looks like a cross between a pug and a girrafe.
@@legogenius1667 Girls, girls you're all beautiful
At least more beautiful than the Nelson class, but then everything is
@@HaydenLau. I think we can all agree that the Nelson would break any mirror as fast as she broke her own windows when firing
Action Station
5 seconds later.....
[ D E T E C T E D ]
6shells in-coming
*_Enemy Cruiser Detected!_*
@@johnyoung4441 more like: TWO DOZEN OF FUCKING EVERYTHING FUCKING EVERYWHERE
Fuso gets burned to hell by he spams
By WW2 these ships were basically death traps for the sailors that were aboard them. The fact that 20 men survived the sinking of the two was probably due to the fact that they were in the pagoda masts and could easily see that the ship was sinking. Or if the ship capsized they were thrown away from the bulk of the ship sinking and wasn't pulled down in it's wake.
If the French sent their hotels to war, then the Fuso/Yamashiro should be called "When Skyscrapers Go to War".
Now that would be a Very very Intrusting history lesson to learn
I could NOT imagine riding out a Typhoon in that insane tower...
Aside from its interesting historical career, the Fuso is one of the mighty tier 6 BBs in WoWs that I will always remember!
I remember 1 battle where I had nearly 200 k damage done and still lost vs another Fuso!
they forgot her torps tho :P
One time I had my spotter aircraft up at the beginning of the battle. Spotted an enemy Fuso at 20+kms away.
Fired 3 full salvos. Each one had 1 citadel hit.
The guy was so salty in chat throughout the game, he hunted me down but I manage to kill him in close range brawl.
New Mexico is better...
James Serrano
new mexico has shit speed and crappy gun reload.
@@TrickiVicBB71
Pretty much why noone should show broadside in Fuso to heavy guns
The only BB of that tier that has bad side armor
I have no idea why but I always likes Fuso, it's a pity they ended like that
Sir Suspicious: I too have always like the Fuso and Ise for that matter
I love that towering superstructure, it just goes on forever!
She's a beautiful ship
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miiiiiiiiles!
What I like about the Fusos is that they also resemble a ship of the line in Battleship form, forming several rows of evenly spaced gun batteries along the length of the ship.
The Fusos have one of the best/most ominous silhouettes of all warships.
I affectionately refer to it as the Jenga Tragedy
I sink slow too...
Yamashiro after the refit might be the coolest looking battleship ever :3
2:50 a wild Kaga appears
A pre-refit one too! (I mean the longer deck refit, not the battle cruiser to carrier one)
@@potatojuice5124 My mistake, it was actually Kaga not Akagi lol commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yamashiro_and_Kaga.jpg
I think it’s been pretty conclusively worked out that the “splitting in two, with both halves remaining afloat” is at best a myth. Or possibly an illusion cause by the massive lake of burning oil she left on the surface. It seems to be felt that she took torpedo hits, swerved out of line and into the darkness, shortly thereafter rolling over to starboard and suffering a magazine explosion either while overturned on the surface, or shortly after she went under. Which wiped out whatever crew had made it into the water, and hadn’t been killed by the burning oil. The more remarkable thing is it was such a pitch black night, and with 2 of the escort destroyers exploding spectacularly in the darkness from torpedo hits, neither the Yamashiro ahead of her, nor the Mogami behind her even realized she had gone. They each though the other ship was the Fuso, closed up the distance, and motored on into the Straight, never realizing that they were down a Battleship.
That doesn't sound plausible. If there was burning oil on the surface it would seem that it would have been silhouette and a look out would have spotted the doomed battleship. However, I do believe that they would have continued on to the fate that awaited for them. Evidently on both ships there was a total of about 10 people topside & the rest below went down with the ship. Such is war.
I'd like to see a review of HMCS Haida. She was a Canadian tribal class destroyer of world war two and has a sterling war record. She is the last remaining member of the type, residing as a museum ship in Hamilton Ontario.
Naval gunnery would be a fascinating topic, not because artillery has been ignored, but areas like evolving technology in the 20th century for target acquisition, firing platform stabilization, non-radar based (optical) ranging and turret automation never have been treated with the interest reserved for gun caliber.
An interesting video could be done on ship-borne radar, since that is what helped win the battle of the Atlantic against the U-boat fleet. Radar-based fire-control also hastened obsolescence of Japan's "pagoda"-style battleship superstructures. A particularly interesting aspect of ship-borne radar is how quickly the Kriegsmarine acquired radar of its own, despite British claims to have invented radar, itself.
Do the HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen. I think that's how toy spell it, it was the one that survived behind enemy territory by pretending to be an island.
I don't remember commenting this
The most hilarious masts in history
5 videos in one day tho 4 of them are just old videos redone in human voice they are still great keep up the great work
8:28 PM Saturday 10 December 2022. Found channel about Warship.
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Am I the only one that initially thought the Yamashiro was the ship sunk by USS Melvin on first listen? The Fuso is not explicitly mentioned and the commentary sounds like a description of a sequence of attacks against the Yamashiro.
That aside, love your videos, especially the human voice ones as opposed to the robo-voices :)
4:39 Yamashiro: Do you see torpedo boats?
Kamchatka: Told ya!
The look of this battleship is stunning.
Glad you are re-recording with your voice for these videos.
Probably good to do a video on the highly regarded IJN Akizuki class Destroyers.
October 25, 1944 was a sad day for both Navy's. American & Japanese. A lot of the Taffy 3 ships would be sunk & a the entire "Southern Force" of the Japanese were sunk. Oh, & the 10 survivors from each battleship would be caught by Phillipine guerrilla fighters & I don't think they fared very well. Those of Taffy 3 would spend 2-3 days in the water and eventually the survivors would be rescued. Although numerous died of injuries and shark attacks.
As far as suggestions go, I'd like to see you discuss the SMS Emden of the German East Asia Squadron in WWI.
Fuso found all in 1 peace
You were mentioned in the HOI4 stream by PI today!
Is it possible for you to do a video on the Flower class Corvettes ? As I understand it, there is one left up in Canada as a museum, but have not the funds to go see her.
That wold be HMCS Sackville. Permanently docked in Halifax. Well worth a video by itself.
Your narration is excellent
Greate videos! Can you Do more Swedish ships? The Äran-class and the Tre Kronor-class for example.
I would like that too.
two thumbs up!
Good video and human voice
Love your segments!!! 😎
Fuso... Proving that drugs, sake,and ship design... Lead to...interesting ideas...
Burned down, fell over and then sank into the swamp.
I would like to see a video on the mine laying cruiser HMS Abdiel.
fyi he uploaded that now
Loved using this ship in world of warships...if that was the game name. So many guns from different angles.
I like how they just added a sky scraper to that dreadnought looking ship. War thunder needs to add this
it's already in it
Hooray for the humans!
There must have been a lot of readjustment to maintain stability with the pagoda superstructure.They always look top heavy.
Look! A Japanese warship with a skyscraper on it closing off the starboard!
Skyscraper on it? Quick, call Godzilla!
The sight of all the guns out for a broadside is striking, only the HMS Agincourt would have looked more menacing.
I love the Fuso and Ise class ships!
Illegal high rise building
True, but the building inspectors would have a difficult time approaching the ship to harass them :)
For some odd reason, I love these battleships.
How about the abdiel class of fast minelayers of the royal navy,3 of which were sunk after valiant service in particular to malta
I love the ijn especially fusō
2:10 - I've often wondered - what are those diagonal structures on the side of the hull? You often see these on WW1 era battleships, but they don't seem to be there all the time. In the photos taken in the 1930s (e.g. 3:08), these structures are gone. What are they? Boarding ramps? Some sort of foldable platform for painters? (See 2:38)
Those are booms for anti-torpedo nets, they were supposed to be deployed when the ship was at anchor to stop torpedoes from hitting the ship. Ultimately they decided they were ineffective, which is why they don't appear on ships past a certain date.
@@greatbasinduckboats3177 Ah! Thanks.. I've been wondering about this for years!
Mighty pagoda!
Pogodas superstructure deserves a video
Japanese version of the hms agincourt
USS Bennion (DD-662) launched the torpedoes that finished the Yamashiro off.
Naval History Magazing - October 2010 Volume 24, Number 5
"Second Salvo at Surigao Strait" by Admiral James L. Holloway III, U.S. Navy (Retired)
Link: www.usni.org/magazines/navalhistory/2010-10/second-salvo-surigao-strait
Thanks to their 40 story 'Pagoda' masts I think all the Japanese BB's turned turtle when they were sunk.
Ise and Hyugā didn't, as they sank in shallow waters. _Kongo_ I believed just exploded and fell apart. Possibly one of her sisters as well. Mutsu exploded as well.
The Yamatos didn’t fully capsize when they sank (they broke apart instead), though they didn’t have pagoda masts in the first place.
Would you do a video on the seven pre-war 16-inch gun ships?
McbrideStudios
All three classes (well, only WV from the Colorado’s) have been covered.
... and sank into the swamp.
I love FUSO bettership
While Japanese preferred firepower. But IMO it's more prudent to removed amidship turrets and use those spaces for both weight savings and more speed like Italian did.
Only 20 survivors out of 2 battleship sinkings!
HMS Hood went down in 2 minutes leaving only 3 survivors!
Hey great video, do you do podcasts at all? What do you think of Dan Carlin’s hardcore history, particularly the super nova in the east episodes?
I’ve always like the design of Japanese warships. Maybe it’s the crazy high superstructure, but there’s something excitingly dramatic and aggressive in their likes. I’m aware this seldom translated to glorious combat records.
Thanks for making a history of me
During your opening sequence when one of the battleships fires there's a whole bunch of stuff that comes off the turret during The recoil what is that
DD-459 USS Laffey plz
I would love to see a video on the Kongo. It seems like an interesting ship.
Nagato + Fusō = Nagasō
I love my fuso class BB in World of Warships
Me too! I find that kongo suits my play style better. But i love to use the fuso anyway
Sorry if you have this video already and I just couldn't find it, but could I request a guide on the Orion class, and perhaps the idea of super-dreadnoughts in general? Once the human voice remasters are done anyway.
Didn't the Fuso and Yamashiro earned the reputation of being
'IJN's misfortune/unlucky BB's' because one, IJN sailors doesn't like to station there and two, they both sunk early during the battle of surigao strait and only 10 sailors on each ship survived
Still need an explanation about the pagoda masts
mazack00
The Imperial Japanese Navy wanted to attach rangefinding equipments higher, but they didn’t want to remove turrets to add a superstructure.
Hence the insanely tall, thin mast.
Bk Jeong ... That's fantastic! Thanks for the information. Could you imagine being at the top of one of those???
mazack00
Would give a wide viewpoint, which was the point.
It’s often said that radar made these high structures redundant, but radar also does better the higher it’s placed. The real problem with these things is that they are structurally weak.
Bk Jeong ...you took that too literally. I'd be afraid of the heights
“Sir, a second Helldiver has hit the Yamishiro”
They must have rolled excessively and been poor gun platforms given the ridiculous height of the superstructure, not surprised the both capsized. Poor sailors made to fight inadequate ships.
Fukou da wa~~
Someone plays Kancolle
Jama dokeee~!
West Virgina hit Yamashiro on its first Salvo and then repeatedly bashed it with 15 more salvos with hits in most with both AP and HC shells
Do a video about Avrora, a ship that started Russian Revolution
If you can still see the sun increase the mast more!
Mid main turrets face at funnels or bridge superstructures
?
Fusou and Yamashiro have different positions for their midships turrets.
I play this ship in the war of warships free online game.. great ship with 12 guns of 14 inches in 6 turrets the only down side is, the main guns take 30 seconds to reload.. yes don't sound long? But when you got a madman in a fast cruiser or destroyer racing towards you at 30 Knots firing their 5 or 6 inch fast loading guns and torpedoes ever second matters.
Those superstructures are just ridiculous. The early version is a pretty ship, but after reconstruction they were hideous.
You should get sponsored by world of warships
One thing I'm surprised by while watching your videos is the numerous times friendly fire occurs.
Essentially no ship radar in use in WW II, and what there was they didn't really know how to use until near the end of the war. Also radio was little used, because it could draw unwanted attention. There was no GPS or for that matter any of the other older radio positioning systems in the Pacific. The only way you could know where you were for sure was taking a transit out on deck and shooting stars at sunrise or sunset. That didn't work well in the middle of a night engagement, especially when it was overcast or raining.
Look up "Night engagement off Empress Augusta Bay" if you want to read about a real comedy of errors in a night battle. But the same sort of thing was common when dealing with the Tokyo Express.
All wars are absolutely riddled by friendly fire. Why recent skirmishes have been so... eye opening shall we say, due to a near complete lack of Blue on Blue action. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_friendly_fire_incidents is only SOME of them.
Yes. Friendly fire has been endemic to all battles. One other factor is that as weapons ranges have increased units at a distance have become harder to identify.
One other factor is that - once one person or unit starts shooting at something - there is a pile on effect where everyone starts shooting at it. In the night battles off Guadalcanal one of the things that would happen is that if a ship caught fire - everyone would shoot at it.
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My favorite is in WWII, USA was doing a trial beach landing before DDAy and the same day on the same beach, the Brits were having a naval live fire exercise practice before DDAY... Needless to say, the lads from the USA took the short end of the stick that day. Plenty of times bombers unloaded over their own troops or allies as well killing thousands. @@BobSmith-dk8nw
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Yeah. St. Lo was a big one. There were over a hundred friendlies killed there including a General - Leslie McNair .
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what are the forward facing things on the side of the hull? what were they for?
you do a video on IJN Kashima and IJN Hamakaze (1940)
Can u do a video on the css Alabama
Cringing from that horrific pagoda monstrosity, I instead am at 4:51, transfixed at the perfect proportions of a Fletcher. Just gorgeous!
You know your torpedo defences are useless when a battleship goes down from just two topedoes.
Have the wrecks ever been discovered and explored?
13 for the unluckiest bbs in the IJN
FUSO.....sound like "few-so" survivors
Would love to see Ise class and their battlecarrier effectiveness
Short answer: no.
I enjoy the videos very much. Would like to see something on submarines please