USS Archerfish Ended the Shinano Ten Days After Her Commissioning

USS Archerfish ended the Shinano ten days after her commissioning. At 3:16 on 29 November 1944, a 1,526-ton submarine fired six Mark 14 torpedoes at a 72,000-ton Japanese carrier, and four of them hit. Japan would never again put a warship of that size to sea. This documentary follows the third Yamato-class hull from its keel at Yokosuka on 4 May 1940, through the post-Midway conversion into a support carrier, to the unfinished night passage out of Tokyo Bay toward Shiono-misaki on 28 November 1944. It covers the missing watertight doors, the untrained damage-control crews, the repaired Mark 14, Commander Joseph Enright's six-hour end-around, the 1,435 lives lost, and the four factors that turned the heaviest carrier any navy had yet put to sea into a wreck in under eight hours. Built from after-action reports, ship movement tables, loss tables and the postwar Naval Technical Mission findings, with disagreements between sources noted where they exist. Subscribe for the definitive history of the United States in the Second World War — new documentaries every few days. #WW2 #WorldWarII #PacificWar #USNavy #WWIIHistory #USSArcherfish #Shinano #SubmarineWarfare #MilitaryHistory #USAInWW2