after the Doolittle raid and then a supporting role in the attack on the Aleutian Islands after this both ships would become training vessels and supply ships despite a number of plans to use them in various one-off operations that never quite came to pass including one plan to send Yamashiro with a full load of troops to Saipan run it aground and use it as a fixed artillery emplacement in a manner similar to the final planned mission of the Yamato later in the war however as losses increased an American forces got closer and closer to Japan they began to be brought back into active service first to try and intercept landing forces and then finally as part of a multi-front offensive to destroy the major American landings in the Leyte Gulf area as part of the southern force at the fuso and Yamashiro sailed with the heavy cruiser Mogami for the surrogate rate along the way Yama sure was damaged by air attack and American torpedo boats approached but were driven off by the ship's secondary batteries later that night the destroyer USS Melvyn attacked with torpedoes scoring one or two torpedo hits on the starboard side depending on whose accounts you believe the either then capsized and sank in NUMBER_TOKEN minutes or listed to starboard broke in two and caught fire burning heavily for over an hour in either case between the sinking and a huge oil fire only NUMBER_TOKEN survivors would reach the nearby shore this left Yamashiro as the sole surviving battleship of the southern force and she was met by the fire of NUMBER_TOKEN light and heavy cruisers and the NUMBER_TOKEN and NUMBER_TOKEN inch guns of six battleships plus ferrous destroyers and other light forces it was a battle that even both ships would have lost decisively but yea maschera didn't go down quietly engaging its attackers with whichever main battery guns that could bring to bear and trying to protect its escorts with its secondary battery firing in all directions however despite this valiant charge the ship was quite clearly doomed and it was hit repeatedly by six eight fourteen and sixteen inch shells pull us at least four torpedoes as the American ships ceased fire after one of their own destroyers was hit by other American ships in the confusion the Yamashiro rapidly capsized and sank as the last two torpedoes hit home and again there were only ten survivors that's it for this video thanks for watching if you have a comment or suggestion for a ship to review let us know in the comments below don't forget to comment on the pinned post for drydock questions
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