The Japanese destroyers Makigumo and Akigumo finally finished off Hornet with 4 24-inch (610 mm) Long Lance torpedoes.
The subs crippled her, her own mates tried to scuttle and sink her but the ijn finished her with 93s.
Oh, and the yamato/musashi were insane, crazily over built and over gunned, they could probably have taken the iowas in a fair fight, which the iowas would never have given them and won by dint of their incredible fire control and hopefully unneeded incredible damage control and resilience, coupled with better sea keeping and ludicrous speed straight to plaid.
The iowas could have crippled the Yamato, trying to sink her was another question.
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The subs crippled her, her own mates tried to scuttle and sink her but the ijn finished her with 93s.
Oh, and the yamato/musashi were insane, crazily over built and over gunned, they could probably have taken the iowas in a fair fight, which the iowas would never have given them and won by dint of their incredible fire control and hopefully unneeded incredible damage control and resilience, coupled with better sea keeping and ludicrous speed straight to plaid.
The iowas could have crippled the Yamato, trying to sink her was another question.