They were on the defensive the rest of the war

What I mean is that they got roflstomped at those two battles in particular.

Which one was the Marianas Turkey shoot?

Midway was far more strategically important than Leyte Gulf or Philippine Sea

Philippine Sea

> Which one was the Marianas Turkey shoot?
@KumquatLord Philippine Sea

Ahh

They lost over 400 planes and the US lost 30. Thing was, we could afford those loses. They couldn't.

And yeah, midway was devastating because it killed their carrier fleet

It wasn’t the planes that hurt them

They had plenty of planes even during surrender

It was that they couldn’t train more pilots

> And yeah, midway was devastating because it killed their carrier fleet
@KumquatLord Philippine Sea was just the final nail in the coffin.

Leyte Gulf*

Leyte happened after and that’s when they lost rest of their carriers

They lost the biggest battleship ever built at Leyte too 😬

The Musashi.

No

Yamato

same class

Musashi and Yamato were both the same size

They're the only two super battleships ever built.

Musashi has so much space that could be used smh

At least they didnt construct IJN Izumo

wouldn’t have mattered

When Yamato exploded, the explosion was so huge it could be seen 99 miles away.

Battleships were outdated

Not surprising considering it was fully loaded

Battleships had their uses

even in the 90s

Land bombardment

Good for costal bombardment

That’s the point

It was outdated for its original purpose

true

Useless in the battles besides anti aircraft guns

hell, the naval bombardments didn’t even do much on Iwo Jima or Okinawa

Still meat grinders

Hehe kamikaze goes boom

Kamikazes didn't do crap.