| |Kongou, everyone, be on your guard... The night sea is dangerous. We need to be careful on our way home too. | | |Kongou, everyone, be on your guard... The night sea is dangerous. We need to be careful on our way home too. |
− | |Reference to Kongou's and Urakaze's sinking. They were returning to Japan with Yamato, Nagato, Yahagi and a bunch of destroyers, when US submarine torpedoed the group. Urakaze literally disappeared on impact, Kongou was redirected to different port few hours later, but due to underestimation of damage, she soon started heavily listing, and soon afterwards her magazine exploded leaving only a melt, burning floatplane. | + | |Reference to Kongou's and Urakaze's sinking. They were returning to Japan with Yamato, Nagato, Yahagi and a bunch of destroyers, when US submarine torpedoed the group. Urakaze literally disappeared on impact, Kongou was redirected to different port few hours later, but due to underestimation of damage, she soon started heavily listing, and soon afterwards her magazine exploded leaving only a melt down, burning floatplane. |