Shangri La (CV 38) - Naval Cruise Book

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President Truman receives surrender documents. carriers, ten cruisers, and nine destroyers in the greatest defeat in naval history. ln the bitterly contested Okinawa campaign she was barely able to pool enough oil to fill the bunkers of the battleship Yamato, the light cruiser Yahagi, and eight destroyers for a fatal sortie which ended under carrier plane attack off Kyushu the following morning. Shorn of sea power, the enemy resorted to air attacks by fledgling suicide flyers, sinking fifteen destroyers and two minesweepers, damaging nine battleships, nine carriers, two cruisers, ninety-nine destroyers, and twenty miscellaneous ships in eleven weeks off Okinawa. Fleet strikes against the enemy homelands in June and July were made under the ever-increasing shadows of B-29's from the Marianas and Okinawa. Japan's industries melted into rubble even as her vast merchant and warring fleets had submerged under persistent American attack. The Japanese Supreme War Guid- ance Council had accepted defeat in early June, but fearing army and navy rebellion, failed to act until Emperor Hirohito requested surrender terms through ' Admiral Mitscher KT.F. 58j invites Admiral Halsey fTbird Fleetj for the fabled ' ride ..