Four Carriers, One Day, Zero Hope: The Destruction of Japan's Last Carrier Fleet
Forgotten GI Stories
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Four carriers sank off Cape Engano on 25 October 1944, destroyed in a single day after sailing as a decoy with about 108 aircraft between them. Zuikaku, the last survivor of the Pearl Harbor carriers, went down at 2:14 that afternoon. The Imperial Japanese Navy would never again send a carrier into battle.
This documentary tells the Japanese side of the Battle off Cape Engano and the Sho-1 plan behind it: the 173 carrier aircraft lost at Rabaul in 1943, the Philippine Sea in June 1944, the Formosa air battle that stripped Vice Admiral Ozawa of 150 more, and the hybrid battleships Ise and Hyuga that sailed without a single aircraft. It follows Mitscher's Task Force 38 strikes, the sinkings of Chitose, Zuikaku, Zuiho, and Chiyoda, Rear Admiral DuBose's cruisers, Task Group 34.5, and the short, hard question of Halsey, Kurita, and San Bernardino Strait.
Built from the postwar interrogations of Ozawa and Captain Ohmae, after-action reports, ship histories, and loss tables, not from legend.
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Four Carriers, One Day, Zero Hope: The Destruction of Japan's Last Carrier Fleet
Forgotten GI Stories
98 views
Four carriers sank off Cape Engano on 25 October 1944, destroyed in a single day after sailing as a decoy with about 108 aircraft between them. Zuikaku, the last survivor of the Pearl Harbor carriers, went down at 2:14 that afternoon. The Imperial Japanese Navy would never again send a carrier into battle.
This documentary tells the Japanese side of the Battle off Cape Engano and the Sho-1 plan behind it: the 173 carrier aircraft lost at Rabaul in 1943, the Philippine Sea in June 1944, the Formosa air battle that stripped Vice Admiral Ozawa of 150 more, and the hybrid battleships Ise and Hyuga that sailed without a single aircraft. It follows Mitscher's Task Force 38 strikes, the sinkings of Chitose, Zuikaku, Zuiho, and Chiyoda, Rear Admiral DuBose's cruisers, Task Group 34.5, and the short, hard question of Halsey, Kurita, and San Bernardino Strait.
Built from the postwar interrogations of Ozawa and Captain Ohmae, after-action reports, ship histories, and loss tables, not from legend.
Subscribe for the definitive history of the United States in the Second World War — new documentaries every few days.
#WW2 #WorldWarII #PacificWar #USNavy #WWIIHistory #Zuikaku #CapeEngano #TaskForce38 #MilitaryHistory #USAInWW2