Guadalcanal's Friday 13th

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My English teacher's relative was on board the Laffey, and got an award for helping save other sailors, and had a destroyer escort named for him, USS Knudson.

One thing not mentioned is that the San Francisco was captained by a Medal of Honor holder, Captain Cassian Young, who earned his Medal during Peral Harbor while commanding USS Vestal, the repair ship next to Arizona. McCandless earned the Medal of Honor for his actions on Friday the 13, and would retire as a Rear Admiral in 1952. Not only that, but McCandless son would be the first American to execute an untethered spacewalk.

Friday the 13th may be unlucky for anyone in this battle, but for USS Fletcher it may be her luckiest day of her life. 13 American ships engaged in the fight. Fletcher was the 13th or last ship in line. Fletcher had a brush of death when 3 Japanese torpedoes ran deep only inches under her keel. Becoming the 3 destroyers to enter the meele, she was the only one still capable of combat by the end. Her hull numbers 445 add up to 13, the task force number 67 also add up to 13. She was named after Admiral Frank FRIDAY Fletcher. By the end of the war she earned 13 battle stars. No wonder Fletcher earned the nickname Lucky 13.

Thank you for keeping history entertaining and alive, and sharing almost forgotten stories of heroism. You guys need 1 million subs now!

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Gentlemen, your videos are masterful. It is truly wonderful to see these battles come to life like this in such a magnificent animation with your narration. Well done.

This definitely needs part 2, where Washington comes back for the Kirishima.

Fun fact: Admiral Callaghan was actually from San Francisco! That made his death aboard SF a death at home. Also, San Francisco survived and made it back to port. Her bridge was initially seen as junk but someone found it after the war and one of the wings present at Guadalcanal is now the monument to the Cruiser and her sailors.

The IJN Hiei was the first Japanese battleship to be sunk during World War Two. Her sister Kirishima actually died even more heroically in my opinion because she dueled with another battleship (USS Washington). Great stuff Yarnhub! Keep it up 👍🏻

They successfully defended the airfield at the cost of thousands of American lives. Salute to those brave sailors. gone but never forgotten. Thanks, yarnhub, for sharing their tale!

I love the animation man! I love how you make history so good to the point I always see your videos as soon as it posts. The world needs more people like you who make boring things so entertaining. Keep the good work lad!👍👍👍

Damn, you guys really outdid yourselves with this outstanding animation on this deadly mission for both sides.

My great great uncle Boyd was on the uss Atlanta. He was wounded in the head and right thigh to shrapnel and was blown over the side of the ship he was picked up the next morning. He was patched up and put on uss San Diego 2 months later. His ship was the first to enter Tokyo Bay since before the war, and was there for the surrender of the Japanese. He later married my aunt genie who was a Japanese war bride.

My late grandfather served on the San Francisco later in the war after the ship was repaired and retrofitted. Nice to see a video about that ship.

Can you do more videos on the B17 Flying Fortress? I can’t believe how much your animations have improved since the beginning. I’ve watched you for a long time now and it’s crazy how your animations keep Getting better and better

Adm Callaghan's greatest error was, since he had no real training or understanding of the new radar technology, that he had placed his two ships with the best/newest radar installations (cruiser Helena and destroyer Fletcher) at rear of his force where they were least effective. Coupled with no firm battle plan and the relatively inflexible formation he used with confused communications his initial advantage of surprise was lost and the battle became a "barroom brawl".

The second cruiser that was sunk here was USS Juneau ,Atlanta's sister ship , she was sunk shortly after the battle by a Japanese submarine. Most of the casualties faced by America at this battle were from this ship alone. Of the casualties were all five of the Sullivan brothers.

I love how you improved the animations. The name on the ship and the show different angles of the explosions

Thanks to your videos I've been able to heal from depression and feel proud of what our nation has done😊