![]() ![]() As a result, down through the decades since World War II's end some authors have said that it was YAMASHIRO that fell to gunfire and FUSO to destroyer torpedoes, and others the opposite of this. Predictably, these factors have led to confusion, even among the Japanese who were present during the action. Such indeed has been the case, aggravated by the fact that FUSO seems to have had no survivors post-war and YAMASHIRO only ten. Thus stated in this bare form, it is obvious that such circumstances, particularly during a night battle, could easily produce confusion. Indeed, since both were members of BatDiv 2, both battleships shared most of their careers together, and by an interesting quirk, died on the same night within miles of each other, victims of the same enemy, during the Battle of Surigao Strait (October 24-25, 1944). Not only did the sister battleships YAMASHIRO and FUSO die under a deluge of shells and torpedoes, but their identities have been continually transposed - as in the proverbial game of shells on a table - by historians ever since. Shell Game at Surigao: The entangled fatesīy Anthony Tully title of this article "shell-game" is apt for more than one reason. ![]()
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