US Navy. Their finest hour

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The Battle of Midway also would have to rank in the U.S. Navy’s finest hours. Six months after Pearl Harbor, they not only sunk 4 of the Japanese aircraft carriers, but also turned back the invasion force that intended to take and occupy Midway Island, which would have been a dire threat to Hawaii. This U.S Navy victory probably shortened the Pacific War by months and perhaps years.

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Samar. Proof positive that truth is stranger than fiction.

Despite having successfully “pump faked” Halsey and appeared off Samar when it was believed he had withdrew, Kurita, the IJN commander, wasn’t thinking straight. He’d had a cruiser sunk beneath him the day before by a US submarine and had spent a couple of hours treading water before being fished out. He was still definitely “off”, but his staff didn’t do anything and his erratic orders played a large part in what was from the Japanese side a complete cluster f~~~.

When trying to understand Kurita’s conduct at Samar, remembering Hooker at Chancellorville after he was knocked unconscious by a nearby cannonball hit would be a good analogy.

While Kurita was loopy, the rest of his forces weren’t much better. The Japanese thought they were facing cruisers and fleet carriers rather than destroyers, destroyer escorts, and escort carriers. They thought that despite having the US ships under direct observation for hours too and kept thinking that until after the war.

Some other the insanity of the day included:

– Yamato, the world’s largest battleship, spending nearly 30 minutes steaming away from the battle. It seems some torpedoes fired at her had been luckily set at her top speed. She couldn’t turn to port or starboard to “comb” the torpedoes’ wake and instead had to steam straight away with the torpedoes following her at the same speed like dogs on a leach. Kurita, naturally, was aboard and that meant he was removed from the battle making whatever marginal orders he was given all the worse.

– The US had several hundred planes on hand, but little in the way to arm them against ships. Instead, the aircraft made multiple strafing rungs with their machine guns. The Japanese, suffering from the “brain cramps” I mentioned above, believed those planes were still launching torpedoes or dropping bombs and acted accordingly. Of course, the maneuvers the IJN ships took to avoid all those nonexistent torpedoes and bombs didn’t do much to help the accuracy of their gunfire.

If you read about the Battle of Samar in a work of fiction, you’d throw away the book in disgust and scratch the author off your list. It’s simply that fantastic.

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