IJN Battleship HYUGA wreck at Kure

IJN Battleship HYUGA Wreck at Kure after World War II

24 July 1945:
At Nasake-jima, south of Kure. From 0915 to 1630, about 200 aircraft of Vice Admiral (later Admiral) John S. McCain's Task Force 38's USS ESSEX (CV-9), TICONDEROGA (CV-14), RANDOLPH (CV-15), HANCOCK (CV-19), MONTEREY (CVL-26) and BATAAN (CVL-29) attack the Kure area. About 50 aircraft including SB2C "Helldiver" dive-bombers of TICONDEROGA's Air Group 87 and other groups attack the HYUGA. Ten bomb hits and many near misses open the HYUGA's seams and she takes on tons of water. One of the direct hits blows the anchor deck apart. Three others hit the bridge and demolish the right side of the conning tower. Rear Admiral (Vice Admiral posthumously) Kusakawa is killed on the bridge.

Sunk: The HYUGA's crew runs the ship aground in shallow waters at 34-10N, 132-33E.
info from http://www.combinedfleet.com
movie from http://www.aeronautic.dk

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• Hyuga
• IJN
• battleship
• wreck
• Kure
• ww2
• world
• war
• japan
• Nihon
• Kaigun
• japanese
• navy

[98RamMagnum]

You seem to be proud of that, stay that way, make sure your children learn to be proud of it, men who served on ships like this no matter who they fought for need to be remembered.

[STUCKER868]

Ironic that Japans battleships here look like those sitting in the mud at Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941. KARMA!

[MidwayCastaway]

@98RamMagnum Amen to that..

[TheBByamashiro]

dear god...next time i will born just send me as a giant back in time so i grab her in my arms and return to greece safely so i can repair her for me...thanks.....

[michaelwright999]

@LeGiiTuhMate  GOOD REPLY OLD CHAP, NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT. WHERE IS SHE ?? WAS SHE BOMBED ??

[LeGiiTuhMate]

@michaelwright999 As Museum Ships/ Maritime Museum, Most people don't wanna travel across the world just to see it, So We should have captured them, Don't scrap them, and Save them. They would be such good historical sites.

[michaelwright999]

@LeGiiTuhMate WHY ???

[LeGiiTuhMate]

That sucks they needa have Japanese WW2 Battleships in the US.

[Smisser991]

my mom was on this ship... she was in the kitchen and TheZuikaku uncle was the captain.

[Militarymodeller]

the only old ship the japanese have is the mikasa no ww2 battleship of theirs r there anymore so sad if they had ww2 ships i bet all of us historians would visit the ships

[98RamMagnum]

Actually, the only reason they lost all of their planes was because of the lack of pilots.