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Originally Posted by skunk works
Curious about the Cruiser(s) which were aided in their demise by their own torpedoes ? I'm pretty sure of three...
Chokai
Mikuma
Suzuya
Who are 4, 5 & 6 ?
Please tell us a story of each. I enjoy hearing of the details of their self imposed end.
I've always felt it was a shortcoming of the USN (not to install tubes on their CA's), ever since first reading about the Battle of Savo.
Be this such an (end game) danger, I'll have to re-evaluate my position...again.
I know early U.S. torpedoes were pretty bad, and indeed would've probably been a waste of space/weight.....and.....um.....the danger factor ?
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Hi Skunk, I had been thinking just the opposite with the Japanese. Did a decint amount of research only to find half of them where caused during Leyte Gulf(2 at Samar and 1 in Surigao Strait).
I said possibly as many as six because while doing the research I came across another person looking into the same thing. He claimed six while I had 5(two I have yet to confirm that the ship could have otherwise been saved). He never replied when I asked him which six so I'm going through the task of tracking it down
Two others I know of are
Abukuma and
Mogami.
I would be glad to post a story for each of these ships along with some destroyers who met similiar fates