Labels:text | black and white OCR: IJN Fuso Battleship 12x14 Inch Main Mounts 14x6 Inch Secondary Mounts ...... 8x5 Inch Tertiary AA Mounts 8x25mm AA Mounts Displacement:35000 tons Max Speed:24 knots Belt Armor: 6-12 In. Deck Armor:3-4 In Main Turret Armor: 12 In. ..................... Conning Tower: 16 In. Fuso and Yamashiro, like the Kongo and Ise classes, ....... were of WW1 vintage. Being unmodernized and ...... without a heavy AA armament in addition to being ...... slow, they weren't commited until things got .......... desperate. At Leyte Gulf, they were finally given ........... a mission- to form the muscle of the lower prong designed to engulf the invasion fleet. As the ...................... northern prong received much of the air attacks, the southern fleet, under Adm. Nishimura, suffered ...... only very minor damage to his ships due to strafing. When they reached Leyte Gulf, they found it ................... defended by Adm. Oldendorfs 6 battleships and ...... numerous destroyers. Hopelessly outclessed and outnumbered (he had a cruser and 4 destroyers ........ besides the battleships), Yamashiro took 2 torps, slowing her to 5 knots, and had 3 main turrets knocked out. She eventually sank. The Fuso, next in: line, took several torpedoes and was smothered with gunfire. She broke in two and finally sank, along with the Mogami and three of the destroyers, early the next morning. Both Fuso and Yamashiro had been sunk on their first sortie in WWII without ........ damaging any Allied ships.
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