Comments by "" (@VersusARCH) on "The Salvage of Pearl Harbor Pt 2 - Up She Rises!" video.

  1. They sank nothing. Take the US battleships away from the Surigao Strait and pretty much nothing changes in terms of ships sunk. It was mostly US destroyers' torpedo work. US Battleships just landed a few damaging hits on the Yamashiro. They were useful at shore bombardments, but smaller, less resource and manpower intensive ships would have done just as well.
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  2.  @jermainerace4156  The US battleships at Surigao Strait at best actually saved many, if not all, of Shima's ships that retreated - by scaring them off. Otherwise Shima would have pressed on and been fed some additional US destroyer torpedoes for his troubles... It was the superior sensors that were decisive in that battle. Not the US battleships.
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  3.  @derkaiser50  In particular those mounted on the destroyers - that allowed accurate torpedo firing at night.
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