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Originally posted by TA152:
I was reading about the ship on this site; http://www.combinedfleet.com/Mutsu.html
Notice on May 5, 1942 gun turrent 5 blew up. I think the incendiaries used in the turret went off and similar to what the US Navy tried to do when a turret blew up, they blamed it on a low ranking crewman that was killed in the explosion. I foget the US battleship's name but it was about 15 years ago. Later they came out and said it was old gun powder that became unstable. Also look at the attempt of cover up by sending the survivors of the Japanese ship to romote outposts. Also looking at the combat record of the battleship from the web site it was not used much in battle during the war.
Seems to me like admirals in both navys think alike and like to cover thier own a**es. [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img]
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TA after reading this a couple of times I couldn't decide if you were aware that the number 5 turret that the site shows as exploding was in fact on the IJN Hyuga, another battleship altogether and occured nearly a full year earlier. Both ships at the time were attached to BatDiv 1 hence the mention of it being included in the narrative on the Mutsu. The earliest mention of type 3 senshikidan incendiary ammunition being used by the Japanese pertains to the night of the battleships at Guadalcanal which was in November of 1942. Given that the Hyuga's Record of Movement doesn't specifically refer to this type of ammunition as the cause and the fact that the explosion occured a full 7 months before the first mention its first use, there is nothing to suggest that the two incidents are linked by the type 3 senshikidan incendiary round.