Comments by "TheEvertw" (@TheEvertw) on "Binkov's Battlegrounds"
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No, they did not. Yamato and its accompanying heavy squadron caught an american squadron of light ships by surprise, destroyed a single light escort carrier (Gambier Bay, of 7.800T and 860 men), and was then driven off, later to be sunk by carrier airplanes.
Musashi made no casualties at all, and was destroyed by submarines and carrier airplanes.
So, in return for this enormous investment, and a huge strategic surprise that should have cost the americans the liberation of the Philippines, Japan only got a single escort carrier. They did not hinder the american plans at all.
They were the proverbial white elephants. Awesome to look at, unfit for actual use.
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