Comments by "Bk Jeong" (@bkjeong4302) on "Austro-Hungarian Battleship Designs of WW1 - Guide 392 (NB)" video.

  1. The current notoriety of Yamato as the supposed symbol of the IJN, whether it be in a positive or negative light, is in stark contrast to how she was actually viewed during the war as a result of most Japanese civilians not knowing of her existence, with Nagato being the true symbol of the IJN all the way to the Japanese surrender. In your view, how has Yamato suddenly becoming famous, and often being incorrectly assumed to have historically been iconic, affected our understanding of both the ship herself and WWII naval history in general?
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  2. For me it was a very vivid (and much of it inaccurate) criticism of the Yamatos because LOL stupid IJN. Then at some point it clicked that those sites and books were using a double standard to dismiss ONLY the Yamatos as a strategic disaster and that those issues applied to WWII-gen fast battleships as a whole…..so it went from “Lol IJN stupid” to “Lol everyone stupid” for me.
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  4.  @f12mnb  See the sad story of Richelieu’s main battery for an example (as of being a battleship built in the carrier era wasn’t enough)
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