The Japanese had battleships in addition to the cruisers and destroyers.
The Japanese had battleships in addition to the cruisers and destroyers.
The Japanese battleships couldn’t lower their big guns enough to hit our ships. The shells went right over them.
My dad was on the West Virginia during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. In the night action at Surigao Straits, West Virginia scored direct hits on Yamashiro in her first salvo. She fire 93 16 in shells at the Japanese Battleship.