Sanctum Imperialis
29-05-2005, 16:30
The two Japanese carriers during WW 2. How much of the US fleet was sent to enagage them?
Maebashi
29-05-2005, 16:36
The two Japanese carriers during WW 2. How much of the US fleet was sent to enagage them?
The yamato and musashi were extremely large battleships, not carriers.
http://www.warship.get.net.pl/Japonia/Battleships/1941_Yamato_class/_Musashi_photos.html
http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_101300_yamato.htm
"Following the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, in which Musashi was lost to aircraft from Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's Task Force 58, Kurita's ships slipped out of the strait, narrowly missing Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee's battle line, which included the battleships New Jersey, Iowa, Washington, South Dakota, Massachusetts, and Alabama. Such an encounter would have demonstrated Yamato's superiority against other battleships, the contest for which she was intended. The next morning they engaged an escort carrier group consisting of six escort carriers, three destroyers, and four destroyer escorts in the Battle of Samar Island, from which Yamato escaped unscathed.
During the Allied assault on the island of Okinawa, south of the Japanese home islands, Yamato was designated as the center of Vice Admiral Seiichi Ito's Special Surface Attack Force, consisting also of eight destroyers and one light cruiser. The purpose of this suicide run to Okinawa—Yamato had only enough fuel for a one-way trip—was to disrupt the amphibious landings there. On April 6, 1945, the force was sighted coming out of the Inland Sea and tracked as it threaded its way west along the southern tip of Kyushu into the East China Sea. Planes from Task Force 58 began their attack at 1232 on April 7. Yamato was hit by 10 aerial torpedoes and 23 bombs, including near misses. The world's greatest battleship finally sank in 30°40N, 128°03E, with the loss 2,498 men. In the words of Samuel Eliot Morison, "When she went down, five centuries of naval warfare ended."
Phylum Chordata
29-05-2005, 16:41
Yamato had only enough fuel for a one-way trip
They were so short of fuel I believe they added peanut oil to it to make it go that little bit further.
The Japanese army and the Japanese navy refused to divulge how much fuel they had left in case one group would be forced to give some fuel to the other.
Sanctum Imperialis
29-05-2005, 16:49
Hehe yeah I kicked myself after I read my post. I knew they where battleships and not carriers. But I was thinking something else.
Phylum Chordata
29-05-2005, 17:00
Okay, I give up. How much of the U.S. fleet was sent to engage them?
Ashmoria
29-05-2005, 17:04
is this a quiz?
are you too lazy to do you own research?
Sanctum Imperialis
29-05-2005, 17:07
is this a quiz?
are you too lazy to do you own research?
No I was asking what other people know about it. I was talking with some one online about it and I came here as well. NS has alot of people that know history, politics and science really well. So if I wanted an answer that has some credibility why not come here?