Den källa jag använder mig av är
http://www.combinedfleet.com/senkan.htm. Eftersom att mycket av det material som presenteras på denna site är ett resultat av senare forskning (männen bakom Combined Fleet har bl.a. skrivit den relativt nyutkomna "Shattered Sword" om Kido Butais undergång vid Midway) där japanska källor använts extensivt är de förmodligen mer aktuella än Dulin & Garske, som i princip bygger på Morison. Om du går ned till TROM (Tabular Record Of Movement) och klicka på
Yamato respektive
Musashi så kan du jämföra deras redogörelse med Dulin & Garskes!
PS. Kontroll av deras siffror om
Musashi:
"In all, Force A endures raids by 259 U.S. carrier aircraft during the day. MUSASHI sustains a total of 19 torpedo (10 port, 9 starboard) and 17 bomb hits, as well as 18 near misses."
Räknar man igenom blir siffrorna något annorlunda:
1st torpedo hit - starboard. Amidships slightly abaft the bridge and causes a 5. 5-degree list to starboard. She takes on 3,000-tons of water. After counterflooding, the list is reduced to one degree.
2nd torpedo hit - port. Abreast the main gun turret No. 1
3rd torpedo hit - port. Floods hydraulic machinery compartment No. 2
4th torpedo hit - port. Floods engine room No. 4
After immediate counter-flooding, the list is reduced to one degree port, but MUSASHI is down about 6 feet by the bow. Her three remaining propellers are throttled up for a maximum speed of 22 knots. (Loss of shaft due to earlier bomb hit)
5th torpedo hit - starboard. Forward of the main gun turret No. 1. The blast from it penetrates fuel tanks, watertight compartments and wrecks the log and sounding rooms. A temporary hospital at the bow fills with carbon monoxide. There are many casualties.
6th torpedo hit - starboard. Bow area and floods storerooms and causes a further list to starboard
7th torpedo hit - port. Forward of the main gun turret No. 1
8th torpedo hit - port. Amidships
Counter-flooding reduces the heavy list to starboard to one degree. The ship is now down 13 feet by the bow with almost all trim tanks and voids filled. MUSASHI's speed drops to 20 knots.
9th & 10th torpedo hits - Hit the bow from both sides
11th torpedo hit - starboard. Abreast the funnel, near the where the first attack's torpedo hit. Cooling machinery room No. 3 and starboard hydraulic machinery compartment flood. Leaks start in Damage Control Central that are shored up.
MUSASHI is down by the bow, but is making 16 knots on three shafts. After counter-flooding, her starboard list is reduced to 1-2 degrees, but her speed falls off to 13 knots.
12th torpedo hit - port (near a previous hit from the second attack). Abreast the main gun turret No. 1, flooding its lower powder handling room.
13th torpedo hit - port. Slowly floods port boiler room No. 8 and soon thereafter the adjacent No. 12 abaft.
14th torpedo hit - port.
15th torpedo hit - starboard.
16th torpedo hit - starboard.
17th, 18th & 19th torpedo hits - port. Amidships in the vicinity of engine room No. 4. A 30-foot long section of the ship's side is gouged out.
20th torpedo hit - port.
21st & 22nd torpedo hits - port. The last two torpedoes strike port aft, flooding the 127-mm AA gun No. 6's magazine, the after gyro room and the port outboard shaft's tunnel. One of those two hits under the aft 155-mm. turret.
MUSASHI develops a 10 degree list to port. The crew counter-floods again and reduces the list to six degrees. MUSASHI's main steering engine is shorted out temporarily and her main rudder jams 15 degrees left. She starts to swing to port, but the damage is repaired quickly and she resumes course.
Jag får det dessutom till 23 beskrivna bombträffar och 11 redovisade närmissar.