The battleship Hyūga's final moments involved intense US carrier-aircraft attacks on July 24-28, 1945, at Kure, where she was hit by about ten 1000-pound bombs, destroying her bridge, killing over 200 crew (including Rear Admiral Kusagawa), and causing major flooding that led her crew to run her aground in shallow water, where she ultimately settled, becoming the last Japanese battleship sunk in combat. #battleship #warship #navy #reel #facebook | Ships & Models by Erick Navas

I’ve shared some of this footage years ago and it was fairly popular. It’s a little different from the usual film clips that I share. This is from “Japanese Beached, Sunk, and Damaged Shipping” at Kure, filmed in April 1946. I believe this is the Battleship Hyūga. I was made aware of this footage by the owner of the long-closed page “WWII in the Pacific in Film.” (The National Archives) | Remembering the CBI - China Burma India in WWII