The Battleship Made to Beg for Mercy

In the Sibuyan Sea, Musashi, one of the two heaviest and largest armed battleships ever assembled, faced the onslaught of American air power. The sky and sea had turned into a battleground as US aircraft descended upon the defiant giant to send her to the depths.
Four waves of hellish torpedoes, strafing runs, and dozens of bombs had pierced Musashi's heart. She was fighting alone against more than 40 enemy aircraft, and more enemy reinforcements were coming.
Nonetheless, her anti-aircraft fire had erupted in a desperate defense. The multiple explosions had battered Musashi and decimated her crew, but she had weathered the storm with the resilience of a Japanese warrior.
The sea had witnessed a clash of steel and fire, and Musashi was the center. She was the jewel of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the only threat to American victory in the Pacific.
Musashi was on her last dying breath, but she was not going to beg for mercy. If she was going down, she’d take with her as many war trophies as she could.

[@rh5563]

19 torpedo hits and 17 bomb strikes and still under steam…. That’s insane.

[@baahcusegamer4530]

US Navy: “They got guts, we’ll spill em”

[@johninnh4880]

I was just going to say the same thing. Crazy! 16" thick armor decking. WOW

[@Happy11807]

NFL

[@Goatfer]

Attacking both sides with torpedoes just caused it to counter flood itself. Later w ith the Yamoto, torpedo attacks were limited to one side only.

[@rh5563]

@@johninnh4880 , absolutely nuts, brother. So I can now understand how she could take so much on top. Wonder what the armor belting was under the waterline to take 19 fish and still make steam? That thing was the ultimate juggernaut. Our modern naval vessels couldn’t take that much damage and still survive. Not even a CVN.

[@happilyham6769]

WW2 battleships are just so much cooler than modern missile cruisers. The insanely thick armor, the teak wood decks, the massive guns, and just the sheer size of the thing. A modern missile cruiser would take it out and the battleship would never even know what hit it, but it still wins the cool factor.

[@TheUsmc0802]

Modern Destroyers are one trick Ponies. Peer or near peer battles will result in range reduced to visual due to electrical jamming negating the missiles, and it now becomes a knife fight in a telephone booth. You know what sinks a ship at that range? Big , dumb, and huge projectiles.

[@macmccartney5760]

I doubt one destroyer or one of our cruisers could sink it, especially be sure they don't carry many anti ship missiles, most are for air defense

[@jodysanders6445]

I agree. Even though they were built to fight, there is no doubt that they were works of art in their own right.

[@shawnwalen7262]

I agree 1000%

[@eatsnowanddie]

fun fact i did see that apparently the uss iowa is being moved for refitment, its either the iowa or another uss bb

[@RonOside]

The Mushashi was a gift to the U.S. Navy, We had nearly 70 carriers by mid-1944. Putting 500 planes in the air was entirely possible. Americans had utter air supremacy.

[@nomercyinc6783]

americans only deal in air supremacy

[@brucevaughn2886]

@@nomercyinc6783 Use what works to destroy what used to work until outclassed by better equipment.

[@robertguerrero8009]

God bless those brave NAVY pilots who gave their lives in this taking down this powerful Musashi fighting titan, RIP all..

[@nomercyinc6783]

theres no rip owed to axis soldiers. nobody who died fighting americans mattered

[@quangminhnguyen3221]

@@nomercyinc6783 many of them are just normal people and they don't want to kill other men.

[@alexlupsor5484]

The Musashi was in the northern squadron along side the Yamato and the squadron including both ships were attacked Musashi became the target allowing Yamato along with the rest of the squadron to escape but not intact. Yamato was hit by one torpedo and a bunch of bombs but escaped, leaving Musashi to die. She had to take 19 torpedoes, along with a number of 1,000 and 2,000 lbs bombs hits to destroy her. Her decks were continually raked by 50 cal. bullets across her AAA a batteries, reducing the AA crews and weapons. During the first stages of her battle she lost her port anchor to even bad list. Torpedo damage began to over take her torpedo defenses with tons of water and the need to flood her machinery spaces was necessary to control the lists. Unfortunately the bombs kept dropping and the torpedoes kept coming until she finally lost her forward motion and the crew could not stop the continuous flooding. The crew was trying to beach herself, but lost the fight with her interior spaces burning fiercely. Between the flooding and the fire became a losing battle. The captain order all to abandon the ship , and while as the crew was trying to fight to live, she capsized. Shortly after leaving the surface one or possibly two of her 18” shells magazines exploded, sending what was left of her to the bottom, mercifully killing over a thousand crewmen. The complete middle section of her hull is scattered over 5 miles in diameter. They found the remains and there is a series of photos (2 hrs) of what is left of this one time massive ship.

[@wtgardner6914]

Yamamato was an Admiral, not a General when his plane was shot down. Much respect to this great Naval Admiral.

[@adriantowe278]

If the Japanese and the Germans and the Italians came together like England and usa and Russia and it could have been a different story I like to put this in the comments to see what people think I am english I would like see what you think about this what I have said

[@1001-p4q]

The word I would use is scum not great. Considering what his personnel did to surrendered POW's

[@icosthop9998]

​@@adriantowe278 good Question. But I think the way we fought the battles, "they" had to fight separately. America took on the Japanese all by are self. Then we join the Europeans , Full force. ( I could definitely be wrong. I'm just picking up information from these videos)

[@icosthop9998]

I noticed the narrator or the owner of this channel doesn't talk to the people who comments. 😒

[@1001-p4q]

@@icosthop9998 That's because it's a A I. Auto program

[@miketeeveedub5779]

A remarkable ship, able to sustain insane levels of damage but was obsolete the moment the first sheet of steel was laid for her keel. Col. Billy Mitchell's 1921 demonstrations of aerial bombardment sealed the fate of all battleships afterwards. The Japanese bureaucracy realized that too late, even going so far as to re-engineer the third Yamato-class battleship Shinano as an aircraft carrier, with regrettable results. The days of the gunboat were over. Airpower was the new king.

[@jamesbuck555]

😢

[@samuelwong4152]

same fate as Yamato, being a gigantic prey for American dive and torpedo bombers to strike, excellent video !

[@petersmulders8058]

I guess the Japanese thought carriers were too vulnerable after midway

[@HACM-mk3qx]

Unsinkable. Then down by the bow. Sounds like April.14, 1912. Research in Japan looking at documents from the Nagasaki shipyard revealed breaking the seams where the armor plates were joined caused the flooding, not armor penetration.

[@DK-gy7ll]

If a ship absorbs 19 torpedo hits and 17 bomb hits it's going to sink eventually. It's a testament to her strength that she took that much damage before sinking.

[@scottdebeaux78]

Fro what i understand the us torpedoes were pretty underwhelming explosive wise. And also unreliable. They fixed this later in the war

[@krazykilljoy7180]

​@@scottdebeaux78American torps weren't the best in those days, built in a hurry

[@loonowolf2160]

​@@DK-gy7llkeep on mind that yamato sunk faster bc only side was targeted with torpedoes bc people realise that it's the fastest way to capsize a ship and sink her

[@loonowolf2160]

​@@krazykilljoy7180for a time, them on half or late 1943 the problems were fixed

[@alexius23]

One of the ironic aspects of the Yamato Class was that they guzzled significant amounts of fuel at a time the IJN was having fuel shortages. There was a morale problem on both of the huge warships. The Yamato was at anchor so much that inside the IJN the battleship had been nicknamed the “Yamato Hotel”.

[@nomercyinc6783]

fuel efficiency didnt affect sailor MORAL

[@lifevest1]

"Fortunately for the allies, Musashi, and her more popular sister, Yamato, never received the wave motion engine outfit that would allow faster than light travel, 10x more power to her primary weapons, and a special bow based cannon that could vaporize a target the size of the entire continent of Australia in one punch. "

[@kenwphoto]

So true

[@joelellis7035]

Japan wasn't being attacked by space fascists and earning the pity of Starsha from Iscandar.

[@toddhildebrand6057]

Prepare to fire the Wave Motion Gun!

[@lyntwo]

Oh man, this genre came so many years after my comic book stage. Envious

[@lauriecroad3186]

Amazing story...

[@scottpemberton9112]

I admire the Japanese for there resilience.

[@davidkinsey8657]

It was more stubbornness than resilience. They kept fighting after Midway but they never really recovered from it.

[@vanzell1912]

What with the military captivated by macho silliness, and an autistic Emperor, they had to be resilient just like every other conquered people in history.

[@pb68slab18]

''Their'' resilience!

[@nomercyinc6783]

theres nothing admirable about anything axis in ww2

[@scottpemberton9112]

@@nomercyinc6783 I am not a fan for sure but I always respect my opponent. Thankfully we had enough good men in those days to withstand.

[@tarn1135]

“Ah Kirk, my old friend, have you heard the Klingon proverb: revenge is dish best served cold? It is very cold in space.” - Kahn

[@Rammstein0963.]

I always said Yamato, Musashi, and Shinano were the right ships for the entirely wrong war. Imagine instead, something like them rocking up at say, Jutland, on *either* side, the British/Germans would have NO answer..

[@toddhildebrand6057]

Love this channel. Keep up the great content. One of my three “Ultimates”

[@singularity1115]

Too many damn commercials !

[@ut1004bp]

She was not the only jewel as whispering Bill said, and not the only threat to American victory in the pacific, and was not the only ship with 18" guns..as said by dark seas

[@briandstephmoore4910]

She only survived so long because for every hit on one side she was also hit on the opposite side so it helped counter flood which is why it stayed afloat for so long. Very impressive none the less but we took lessons learned and against the Yamato they only attacked one side causing it to lean heavy and sink rapidly.

[@alexius23]

Designed for a battle of Jutland type battle…time & technology made it vulnerable

[@Ozzywozzy]

I wish someone could make a movie about a battleship to battleship movie, yeah i know it rarely happened but the Pacific was just as an amazing theater as Europe.

[@jstowell5]

"Eat a child" Rubin, that made me LOL IRL!

[@vaughnmojado8637]

She sure took a beating. I mean it took a big beating on the first hit. Then came back out for another beating. This is when it took a lot. I give the Japanese a lot of props. Fierce people. But the American Navy took it to it. Some amazing power. I sure hope it never happens again.

[@じゃがいも-n8j]

なんですか？そのお笑い歴史は。もしかして世界の、白いアメリカ以外の世界の歴史をご存じない？？？

[@vaughnmojado8637]

There was no comedic content in my words. I gave that Battleship props for what it took in abuse. Don’t think White America is my influence. Haha! That is no different for what you just said. I didn’t mean any disrespect. Please don’t disrespect me.

[@AwesomeNinja1027]

IJN Musashi's wreckage can be found at the bottom of the Sibuyan Sea.

[@mackpainter7445]

Bed roll falling from cabinet.. Severe damage

[@alexius23]

Many of the survivors of Musashi were stationed at Fort Drum in Manila Bay. The crew was driven to the lower parts of Fort Drum. USN pumped huge amounts of fuel oil into the fort. After refusing to surrender the Americans ignited the fuel. No one survived the fire storm that followed..

[@zhli4238]

In early years, it wasn’t clear whether airplanes attack warships can do much, let alone sinking any battleships.

[@thekingsilverado3266]

Like everyone else sober is posting it took an insane amount of firepower to even just put a dent in the thing....

[@Crab_Allah]

The ship that died like a true samurai 🎌 banzai

[@rideshareog]

That was exceptional Japanese steel. Don't start none....

[@Spartan902]

I have a model of both the Musashi and the Yamato and they are truly massive compared to the biggest American and British Battleships that I also have models of.

[@colinhunt4057]

And had they ever engaged, the odds were at the time that the four Iowas would have shot them to pieces. The Iowas had far better design features, protection, electronic rangefinding and artillery accuracy than the Yamatos could hope to match.Size isn't everything. The Sibuyan Sea battle showed that the all or nothing protection scheme was flawed. The citadel region did not have enough flotation to keep the ships affloat once the bows/sterns had been completely compromised.

[@Spartan902]

@@colinhunt4057 I agree. All I was saying is how big they were. The design was definitely flawed.

[@colinhunt4057]

@@Spartan902 Agreed entirely. The design criterion of a few battleships withstanding the entire might of the US navy in some Pacific version of Jutland was simply ridiculous. The largest inherent flaw in the IJN was how much it and the Japanese army hated each other. They were at least as likely to shoot at each other than to shoot at colonial empire forces. The internal politics of the IJN was equally ferocious. There was a large continent of those in the navy advocating for carrier air power rather than more battleships. It's worth noting that neither Yamato or Musashi were completed by the time of December 7. This suggests that the big-gun battleship advocates had lost the internal bunfight, recognizing that the Great Pacific War would NOT be dominated by battleships. But then, in how many wars does it happen where the war that is expected is NOT the one that actually arrives and how it is fought? Perhaps all of them?

[@Spartan902]

@@colinhunt4057 Thanks for the information. I have always wondered why they didn't use the steel to build more carriers.

[@colinhunt4057]

@@Spartan902 Steel in Japan was severely limited. Japan had limited sources of iron in the country. Japan had no coal, and had to import it all. Most of their coal and iron came from Manchuria which they had seized from Russia in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5. Japan was a heavy importer of iron and steel from the US. This is why iron and steel was included with the US oil and gasoline embargo of July 1941. And because iron and steel were limited, the arguments over how to use them militarily were ferocious.

[@philipmiller2618]

The Musashi and Yamato were not cruising the Pacific to lure out the Americans. For most of the war, they were hiding in Port mostly in Japan or in Truk, sometimes Rabaul. The Superbattleshipes were a White Elephant, a waste of steel and resources. A big disappointment.

[@じゃがいも-n8j]

いいえ。必要だから作られました。

[@GeorgiaBoy1961]

The junior officers and ratings of the Imperial Navy who had fought so hard in the South Pacific - out of earshot of superiors, I'm betting - derisively referred to the super-battleships as "floating hotels" for senior officers. Those destroyer and cruiser men had reason to complain, because they shouldered much of the burden of the fierce early fighting in the South and Central Pacific, while Japan's most-modern battle-wagons swung at anchor at Truk or the Inland Sea. And by the time the high command sent them into action, the time when they might have made a difference had passed for good. The Japanese navy had its battleship admirals, just as the U.S. Navy did. It may have been blind luck that the U.S. carriers weren't at Pearl Harbor and that none were lost, but after Dec. 7th, it was much harder for the battleship admirals in the USN to shoulder aside the proponents of air power and carriers. That sort of awakening came too late to the Imperial Navy high-command and staff. Worse yet, by the time the primacy of naval air power was recognized, belatedly, the strength of the IJN aviation arm was highly-depleted in terms of the experience of its pilots. The Imperial Navy aviation arm was an elite group, fairly small in absolute numbers, and the fleet did not move quickly-enough to replace lost combat-experienced pilots. Rather than withdrawing them from the front line to train new aviators, they were kept in action until they were lost, burned out, or somehow managed to survive the war. The American policy of using combat-experienced flyers to train new ones paid huge dividends as the war went on.

[@gregparrott]

0:51 No, the Musashi was NOT the "only threat to American victory in the Pacific". The Musashi never sank or even engaged with ANY U.S. ships. Sinking Musashi was little more than a symbolic victory. Japan's once extensive navy had already been reduced to a shell of its original strength. The key naval battle at Midway had been lost over two years before. By the time the Musashi was sunk, the U.S. had isolated Japan's key naval base at Rabaul almost a year before, with subs stationed to pick off ships. Japan's largest naval base, the Truk lagoon, had been bombed so much that almost all combat ship had left more than 8 months before Musashi's sinking. Japan then also lost the battle of the Philippine, and the Marianas turkey shoot before Musashi's sinking on October 24, 1944. The loss of their navy, and the ever growing numbers of U.S. aircraft, ships, islands and runways had already assured Japan's eventual defeat. The Japanese mainland was already being repeatedly bombed. The largest bombing was 5 months later - the Tokyo fire bombing, involving 300 bombers in a single raid. I mention all this because this channel is prone to sensationalist portrayals, over emphasizing some details, while completely omitting others. This detracts from its quality.

[@mistastabs5840]

Where is Trook lagoon located or is that like Truk lagoon?

[@colinhunt4057]

That's Truk lagoon. Japan had built a naval station there in the 1930. But it had no repair facilities or fuel storage tanks. So other than airfields, it was actually useless as a naval base. The Americans simply isolated it rather than assault its defences directly. And that was wise as Truk was essentially indefensible. There was no need to assault it; the Japanese forces garrisoning the island were utterly helpless, out of supply, out of ammunition, and with no reliable water supply. After isolating the place for months, the US navy simply pounded Truk into oblivion.

[@MinhNguyen-cn8kx]

Fantastico Mushasi... Respect from Vietnam... Allahu akhbar .

[@nomercyinc6783]

they were built to demand mercy not beg for mercy. the one reaping doesnt beg for mercy

[@Malbeefance]

Musashi took the heat for the rest of Kondo's battle group. Imagine how many other ships would not have survived a more spread out attack.

[@richardbrown1553]

Would be so much better is the video and pictures matched the narration.

[@alexlawrence293]

Agreed - I find the irrelevant video usage quite annoying

[@AussiePom]

It's difficult for the Japanese surrounded these two ship in great secrecy from construction to death. Even when being built the photos released to the media at the time were of two heavy cruisers not these two leviathans. Even ship yard workers were forbidden to tell anyone what they were doing at work. In sinking both suffered gigantic catastrophic underwater explosions which broke Yamato into three pieces but Musashi was even worse for only the bow section up to the first Barbette lies on the seabed in one piece. The rest of her is completely and utterly obliterated. She left the surface in one piece but on her decent to the sea floor she literally blew her entire self apart.

[@danmacneil1895]

The what if scenarios are always interesting like what japan would have done if midway was diferent! and moving back to the twin monsters and how they would have been used finally to full effect maybe being museum ships today had japan been victorious!

[@mingfanzhang4600]

😊😊😊😊😊

[@mingfanzhang8927]

😊

[@philipmiller2618]

Yamamoto was an Admiral, not a General.

[@rickwhite4137]

She was struck with _nineteen_ torpedo and several bombs! The length is exactly the same as for the Iowa class battleship. 262 m, but she had 40.6 cm armor compared to 30.7 cm for the Iowa class. I didn't know that steel can float.

[@michaelwaldmeier1601]

How much oil did she consume per day?

[@willestus9120]

Bout a quart pending on how hard ye pushed o'girl

[@massmike11]

I think he mentioned fuel oil

[@jasonsmith1143]

i can't never get enough stories from battleship Yamato.

[@contumelious-8440]

I don't not understand what you are saying. (I'm saying you are an idiot in case YOU didn't know what is gong on [likely])

[@shawndmiles6747]

Interesting, I didn't know all the 6" secondary turrets were removed and replaced with more AA.

[@royasturias1784]

"TOKI WA KITARERI!"

[@willestus9120]

Godspeed to all the brave

[@mizzouman8939]

18 1" guns?

[@ruthbaggett4440]

She had 9 18.1 inch guns. The narrator didn't pronounce "point." I have to read captions because of some hearing loss. The closed caption had it correct, just the narrator missed it. If I hadn't seen the captions, I would have thought the same as you.

[@vic5015]

IJN: "We're *totally* complaint with rhe Washington Naval Treaty but you aren't allowed to come verify our compliance! You just have to trust us, bro."

[@じゃがいも-n8j]

既にその時には脱退していた定期。設計開始34。起工37。39完成。41年１２月公試。

[@politicsuncensored5617]

I have enjoyed your videos for a number of years now, but you constantly screw up names/terms. You called Admiral Yamamoto, General, Admiral Yamamoto was the top many in the Imperial Japanese navy, not their army as a general. You constantly refer to sailors as soldiers. Sailors are in the navy and soldiers are in the army. Other than these mistakes I really enjoy the work that you put into so many excellent videos. Shalom

[@tracyweber4828]

Ya Co Ska not yo co su ka please :)

[@rayaznavorian8708]

I wonder if her wreck was ever mapped like the Yamato was.

[@MikiLund]

Yes and is completly blown apart, aparently both forward and aft magasine blew up on her way down to her final resting place. Survivers also account for this, many sailors in the water was killed by the concussion.

[@loonowolf2160]

She took thst much to sink bc u know, if u torpedoes both side ofc it's going to take hours to sink, BUT as we see yamato was hit by one side only capsize faster and done gone

[@jamesadams7528]

Amazing they could keep their main magazines from exploding under all that punishment

[@kevincloud574]

Oh snap a correct, unchanged video title? Nice.

[@mingfanzhang8927]

😊❤😊❤😊

[@mingfanzhang4600]

😊

[@tarn1135]

Yamamoto wasn’t an “important general” he was Japans highest ADMIRAL. There is a difference between those two ranks.

[@TheeGlocktopus]

The thumbnail really needs a big red arrow to show where the 73000 Tonne Battleship is located?

[@426superbee4]

Remember Pearl

[@RonOside]

The Axis was self-deceiving. I saw a Newsreel recently, it's on youtube somewhere, from 1943 of an Italian sub captain being congratulated by a German Admiral. The names of the ships on his superstructure were MISSISSIPPI and MARYLAND. If anyone has any evidence at all that an Italian Submarine sank two famous American battleships, let me know. I have Skittles. The same is true for Japanese Air Forces ability. Flying a tin foil kite against 6 or 8 .50 caliber machine guns is not a winning proposition. Moving in with a battleship with no air cover is a suicide mission by 1944 against the Americans. We live for that moment. We learned it from you at Pearl Harbor,

[@RonOside]

It boils down to the Americans being under-estimated even though Yamamoto warned The Emperor that Pearl Harbor will be a huge mistake. He warned them all - and then he died for the attack. Irony is hilarious,

[@mikedearing6352]

Japan had a window open and blew it, Midway was conducted by the wrong admirals, the younger Japanese commanders saw the mistakes being made but were unable to do anything about it.

[@valvio1331]

"Musashi was on her last dying breath, but she was not going to beg for mercy." It seems that the one making the title of this video is skitzo...

[@Air-bear]

Gadfly here 🙁. What good did Japan think putting depth charges on, the 😢largest ship ever, was going to accomplish. Were they planning on using this leviathan to chase submarines. No depth charge would go out to attack range of a submarine 🫣🫠

[@jonnewton5929]

I'll bet they scuttled it.

[@Brian-bp5pe]

Naval superiority? Hardly. She was to big, too sluggish and too slow.

[@JamesGraf-l5b]

Truk (truck)

[@philipmiller2618]

A super battleship with depth charges. Isn't that a waste? Battleships shouldn't be chasing subs. Not wise.

[@lyntwo]

Amazing that the same Japanese Navy which sank the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse by use of land based bombers and torpedo bombers of the Japanesr Navy did not make note of what that actuon predicted.

[@johnpower8356]

Now an artificial reef

[@caverstacy]

Of COURSE they are armed battleships. What’s the point otherwise?

[@robertsspetz9860]

That’s a bb

[@matthewnewton8812]

Has anybody ever seen the amazing/terrible 2009 Japanese movie Space Battleship Yamato? This movie will transfix you. The premise is simple and yet it makes no sense at all. Basically it’s a post apocalyptic scenario because humans have destroyed our world, except for some reason the survivors are battling aliens and if they can defeat the aliens the world can be made beautiful and green again (huh??? Who destroyed the earth?? Us or the aliens? It’s for you to decide….). Anyway the humans secret weapon in their fight against alien repression is that since there’s no oceans anymore they were able to resurrect the dead hulk of the Yamato and turn her (ironically) into a space aircraft carrier which they call a Battleship for some reason, replete with lasers and warp drives and high tech bridges and the works. It’s got terrible, terrible actors, the most stereotypical characters imaginable (the captain literally has a giant grey beard connected to his neck; you can practically see the strap lmao), and a super cute Japanese model who turns out to be actually the most talented actor in the movie. This movie is amazing. Absolutely nothing that happens makes any sense at all, and it’s pure pleasure to watch it. Please go see this movie immediately. Your life will improve immeasurably.

[@singularity1115]

The number of commercials is ridiculous. Time to boycott these channels til they stop being so greedy! Done and unsubscribed !!

[@1milesnpr]

What the fuck are "18, 1 inch guns?"

[@buck9739]

Two huge waste of time and material. Thank goodness they were so foolish.

[@ReRiderChi]

Is the narrator an AI? Numerous mispronunciations

[@buck9739]

What a silly waste no wonder they lost.😂😂😂

[@auro1986]

they could have made it an aircraft carrier

[@johncmitchell4941]

The third ship of the class was already being outfitted as such vs following the original plan.

[@Lajs657]

Secret ??

[@luvIDF]

Blah blah blah get to the point, you no nothing of public speaking your videos are unwatchable.

[@Revenraynehart]

Just because knowledge of this great ship is sparce, does not make it secret.

[@noseyparker6969]

'Secret ' makes for a catchier title.

[@joelellis7035]

It was built in secret. The dock workers who built it were sworn to secrecy, and forbidden to take pictures.

[@diniduliyanage462]

Another proof of American cowardice. Lol

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

How, exactly?

[@krispinlihme529]

Shame on you for allowing a political add !!!

[@otacon5648]

He didn’t allow shit. I didn’t see a political ad. They are put in at random. The content creators have no control over the adverts you see. They are based on your searches and what you show an interest in. So ironically it’s your fault you saw that particular advert.

[@ThatOneGuyWithTheEye]

Just some boomer who doesn't understand how technology works.

[@krispinlihme529]

You got it

[@Rockwolf50]

How in the name of Christ was it a secret? The U.S. literally built the Iowas to take her and Yamato on. More clickbait.

[@AussiePom]

Then why didn't the Iowa's seek them out to destroy them. I reckon the US navy had no intention of allowing their new battleships to get into a one on one gun duel with either of them. Yes the Iowa's firepower and shells may have been superior but the powers in the navy at that time had no intentions of finding out if that was true or not. The age of the battleship was drawing to a close that why the Iowas spent their war service in a secondary role with the new capital ship the aircraft carrier now carrying out the primary role. In the Pacific war the US and Japanese fleets never got sight of each other as the war against each other was fought at great distance with only the planes of opposing sides seeing an enemy fleet.

[@brucevaughn2886]

@@AussiePom First rule of a fight - choose your time and place. Never let your enemy do the choosing. And, never fight fair. Always fight to win using your best weapons. Never give your enemy any advantage.

[@Axonteer]

„Secret“ 😄

[@robertf3479]

All three Yamato class hulls were built in something close to absolute secrecy, nothing was confirmed about them until after the war. Our Navy thought they had been armed with a new type 16" gun, the truth of the 18.1" was a shock. Estimated displacement was initially thought to be around 60,000 tons rather than the 72,000 tons in the Japanese figures. Armor protection was much heavier than USN estimates.

[@docholidayoutlaws104]

It wasn’t quite big enough now was it not after waking up a sleeping giant !!