Using that idea of it being lucky or unlucky for surviving so much, that logic could be put to the Pocket Battleship Deutschland later Lützow. Which is commonly seen as unlucky with the amount of damage caused to her but she too survived till the end of the war. Only to be sunk as a target ship.
I was about to post that. Lützow missed out on a lot due to accidents or damage, starting even in the spanish civil war. But in the end she brought her crew home
The Yamato Museum in Kure houses one of her main battery 8-inch guns. It came from turret no. 3, and is breeched as a result of it being damaged during the Battle of Cape Esperance.
I think I can add "stubbornly refuses to sink" to my mental image of Aoba now. Nowhere on the same level as "US ship loses her bow and figuratively walks it off," but getting there.
Out of curiosity. Just how many Japanese ships could have been considered lucky and unlucky. Plus out of all fleets of ww2 which had the most unlucky and unlucky ship's?
Yukikaze is pretty famous, but i think she's more cursed than lucky, like she sucks out all the luck of every ship she escorts, like Musashi, Shinano and Yamato she was there when they all sank, and from one story I read/heard(forgot where), Yukikaze was also hit by a dud bomb, and when she returned to port for repairs, when the bomb was removed from her and was taken at a few distance away, the bomb exploded killing the folks carrying it, take this last part with a huge bottle of salt, cause i can't remember where i heard of it. Addition: she survived the war, was given to the Chinese, renamed as Dan yang and was then scrapped in 1970
"Don't shoot, it's me Aoba!"
Helena, Salt Lake City, Laffey and others loading their guns: "Shame"
Using that idea of it being lucky or unlucky for surviving so much, that logic could be put to the Pocket Battleship Deutschland later Lützow. Which is commonly seen as unlucky with the amount of damage caused to her but she too survived till the end of the war. Only to be sunk as a target ship.
I was about to post that. Lützow missed out on a lot due to accidents or damage, starting even in the spanish civil war. But in the end she brought her crew home
The Yamato Museum in Kure houses one of her main battery 8-inch guns. It came from turret no. 3, and is breeched as a result of it being damaged during the Battle of Cape Esperance.
Given her sinking of PT-109, Amagiri likely deserves her own video.
Credit to the crew to keep her afloat
I think I can add "stubbornly refuses to sink" to my mental image of Aoba now. Nowhere on the same level as "US ship loses her bow and figuratively walks it off," but getting there.
Defending the empire until the end 🫡
Love the content. Cheers from Estonia
I'm lucky to know more about the ship I sailed today in the games :)
Self-sabotager of Cape Esperence.
Re-upload but why?
Out of curiosity. Just how many Japanese ships could have been considered lucky and unlucky. Plus out of all fleets of ww2 which had the most unlucky and unlucky ship's?
with the IJN early ships surviving many battle into late war, many would consider those ships lucky!
Yukikaze is pretty famous, but i think she's more cursed than lucky, like she sucks out all the luck of every ship she escorts, like Musashi, Shinano and Yamato she was there when they all sank, and from one story I read/heard(forgot where), Yukikaze was also hit by a dud bomb, and when she returned to port for repairs, when the bomb was removed from her and was taken at a few distance away, the bomb exploded killing the folks carrying it, take this last part with a huge bottle of salt, cause i can't remember where i heard of it.
Addition: she survived the war, was given to the Chinese, renamed as Dan yang and was then scrapped in 1970