Скачать или смотреть The Destroyer That Charged a Battleship — Ernest Evans and the USS Johnston at Samar

October 25, 1944: one 2,050-ton destroyer charged four battleships totaling 181,000 tons—including the 72,800-ton Yamato, the largest warship ever built—to save six defenseless escort carriers from certain destruction. You'll see how Commander Ernest Evans turned USS Johnston into a weapon that changed naval warfare forever, attacking alone before any orders were given, launching ten torpedoes at point-blank range against impossible odds, and fighting with a single gun after taking dozens of direct hits. What happened in those three hours off Samar Island rewrote every rule about what destroyers could do against battleships—and why the Japanese fleet turned away when victory was five miles ahead.

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