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Originally Posted by JokerD
1 thing that's not been mentioned yet is the american sub fleet, which wreaked all kinds of havoc on the the Japanese navy during WWII.
Wiki list 38 destroyers, 14 cruisers, the Kongou and quite a few carriers including the Shinano, a Yamato hull converted to a carrier:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...can_submarines |
Japanese ASW was quite poor. And they didn't help themselves with their damage control procedures. Taihō for example sank over six hours after getting torpedoed because the crew was incapable of dealing with the leaking aviation fuel. In the meantime the carrier was still in good condition to launch aircraft before getting jolted by explosions.