According to some records, the destroyer disabled a Japanese heavy cruiser with a torpedo and significantly damaged another. After having spent virtually all its ammunition, she was critically hit by the lead battleship Yamato and sank. Of a 224-man crew, 89 died and 120 were saved, including the captain, Lt. Cmdr. Robert W. Copeland.
Source: Navy Times.
They discovered the tomb of heroes, the real kind, not the kind that wear capes in comic books.
Damnit! It’s USS Johnston, not Johnson,
As a point of comparison:
SS Daniel J Morrell-Lake Huron, November 1966-220 feet deep
SS Edmund Fitzgerald-Lake Superior, November 1975-530 feet
RMS Titanic-North Atlantic Ocean, April 1912-12500 feet
Bismarck-North Atlantic Ocean, May 1941-15700 feet
USS Indianapolis-Philippine Sea, July 1945-18000 feet
USS Johnston-Philippine Sea, October 1944-21180 feet
USS Samuel B Roberts-Philippine Sea, October 1944-22916 feet
Ugh
I thought this was a parody on John Roberts Chief Justice and his wing nut commentary on the ruling
I need to take the day off
PING
The The USS Johnston and USS Samuel B. Roberts took on suicide runs and were lost, but did hamper the Japanese fleet. It was called a Heroic action!
When George Custer did the same, in attacking a larger hostile Sioux-Cheyenne-Arapaho force, he was considered a villain.
At first, I thought they were talking about the wreck that is USSC Just-us JOHN Roberts! My mistake.
We had developed our Navy to an effective and massive fighting force by then.
But luck never hurts either.
USS submarines Dace and Darter early on fired on Jap Admiral Kurita’s main Fleet (5 bb, 12 cv and 15 dd) and scored hits the on 3 ships , amazingly one was Kurita’s Flagship. It sank so quickly Kurita almost drowned and had to swim for some time. Not being a young man it likely had a telling effect on him later and might have contributed to losing his nerve right as a significant victory was at hand after he had finally defeated Taffy 13.’ (among other mistakes like issuing a vague order of “general attack” and having his command ship maneuver out of the fight to the degree he lost what control of the battle that he had left)
More here, with additional photos and video...
https://taskandpurpose.com/history/ww2-ship-samuel-b-roberts-found-deepest-shipwreck/
BRAVE American sailors died on that ship..
Funny i was jsut reading a clive cussler novel that mentions this shipwreck. I think it is in the night probe novel Dirk Pitt series’ https://www.allfreenovel.com/Book/Details/43510/Night-Probe!-(Dirk-Pitt-6)
Bttt for naval history...