Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "IJN Yamato - Guide 082 (Extended)" video.

  1. 9:36 - Ironically, if Yamato and co. had been used more aggressively at Midway, instead of holding them back in fear of the carriers, they could've quite possibly massacred the American carriers.
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  2. ​ @bkjeong4302  Two possibilities: a night attack (remember, the USN didn't have night-carrier-strike capability at the time of Midway), or just charging the carriers down and taking advantage of the U.S. essentially lacking a useable torpedo bomber at this stage in the war (with the TBD being both hopelessly obsolete by Midway and equipped with torpedoes that rarely worked) and mid-1942 carrier-based dive bombers being almost completely ineffective at disabling fast, maneuvering capital ships (out of all the [relatively-few] instances in WWII of a battleship or battlecruiser being sunk or crippled by aerial attack without the use of torpedoes, every single one involved either a ship that was at anchor [Marat, Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya, Arizona, Tirpitz, Haruna, Ise, Hyūga], a ship that was already unmaneuverable due to prior battle damage [Hiei], or a ship being hit by a Fritz X guided bomb [Roma, Warspite], and none of these circumstances would've been applicable at Midway).
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  3.  @bkjeong4302  If that were the case then no American ship would've ever been lost to Japanese surface attack, which is patently ludicrous.
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  4.  @bkjeong4302  Ooh, a challenge!
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