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Well that was because they didn't use the MK 14 on the Shōhō...MK 13 was used...the early MK 13s worked very well. Really killed the Shōhō. But after they ran of of them they used the later version of the 13 (with propellers after the fins) on the other two Japanese carriers.. with very poor results.
@@deafsmith1006 they were using the same Mk. 13s at Midway a month later and those performed in a manner that should have resulted in summary court martials for everyone at BuOrd who even _thought_ of the word 'torpedo'.
It amuses me how many of these stories start with "however, American/British code breakers...". Germany: "This is the plan. Got it?" Japan: "Yep, cool" Italy: "Yep, cool" US/UK: "Yep, cool"
American aviators we're untested and just a bit cocky. They had similar problems during the Marshal Island Raid in February, and will still at Midway the month next.
The lack of situational awareness compared to today reminds me of reading Cujo. Written in a time when cell phones weren't a thing is all that makes the peril in that story believable.
I feel like that Japanese Light Carrier was a guy who messed up with the wrong gang and got beaten down by an angry mob, then it was dragged in the streets, rolled over by a truck, then it was set on fire. Then it got loaded on a plane, dropped off that plane 3,000m in the sky without a parachute. It was then shot by machine gun fire for 30 minutes, followed by an artillery strike. Whatever was left of it got chopped into perfect one inch cubes only to be dropped in lava. I've rarely seen such an overkill in naval warfare.
Outstanding, as always, by ”The Ops Room.” Wish my late WW2 dad could watch this. He was involved in the defense of Port Moresby, which if Coral Sea and Santa Cruz had been lost, would’ve been very bloody for the US and its allies.
You put a lot of emphasis on that last tomorrow. Part 2 releasing tomorrow confirmed?! One of the best history channels on yt, keep up the amazing work!
If the US had delayed the Doolittle raid they the Enterprise and Hornet would have been available to be used in the Coral Sea.... Imagine 4 US carriers there... and the overwhelming attack and defense capability they would have had.
So if the high end estimates are taken, Shoho was hit by 12 bombs and 15 torpedoes. For comparison, the Yamato took 11 torpedoes and 6 bombs to sink. Her sister, Musashi, took 19 torpedoes and 17 bombs, most due to attacks coming from both sides instead of coordinating on one, like what was later done with Yamato. The Shoho was 674 feet long, 59 feet wide, and weighed 11,443 tonnes standard. The Yamato class were 863 feet long, 128 feet wide, and weighed 72,800 tonnes at full load. Now that's a paddling.
Thanks for this . It can be difficult to find details on the Coral Sea battle even though it is one of the first major battles of the pacific and so close to home (I am Aussie) .
The IJN, likely for fuel limitations, was far too parsimonious with their fleet assets. They had no other plans in the works as important as this, and they anticipated US opposition, yet underallocated available resources dramatically.
On Naval battles, The Operations Room should list the names of the ships involved. For example 16:26 - TF17 what's it composed of? Which ships are on it? 14:02 - Shoho Force. Again what ships are attached to it, which classes, and which ships?
That advert says you could build an alliance as strong as the allies in ww2. Are they aware of what happened immediately after ww2? 🤔 Strong alliance 10/10
I wonder why navy ships didn’t have a system of releasing smoke screens when they were in danger from an air attack… seems like it would have been a useful tool
@@eski152 i mean im thinking 3d, if they have tons and tons of smoke pouring out the stacks going into the sky i would think that would create a screen from above and even if it gives you a few extra percentage of a chance to get miss by a bomb it seems worth it
I am laughing very hard at wave after wave of aircraft attacking the T17 Support Group, and the last wave is actually US bombers, like the confused looking around scene from Pulp Fiction.
Something like this almost happened at the Battle of Midway. When the two SBD squadrons from the Enterprise finally came across the carriers, everyone started to follow the lead attackers onto one carrier, the Kagi. Fortunately, a Lieutenant Best recognized this error and took his group to attack a second carrier, Akagi. Had he not done so, the Japanese would have had two carriers rather than just one after this attack.
It's amazing how the Pacific war reshaped the concept of naval warfare. Essentially overnight most traditional naval tactics became obsolete and the strategy became centered around these massive games of hide and seek. Find the carriers, and send everything you can possibly send to kill them. Do that, and you win.
And after that, naval warfare just became find the ships, since enemy is unlikely to have carriers now, and throw a few salvos of cruise missiles against them. Naval warfare severely shrank after this war
This Illustrated to me better than any other lesson I've had so far the amount of confusion and blind stabbing in the dark that led up to this battle, which none of the time could have known was so pivotal.
Being an Admiral leading a task force in this situation sounds like the most stressful thing imaginable. So many decisions to make, so much information coming in (often inaccurate), and any wrong decision can spell doom for the task force or even doom for their country's efforts in the theater.
after 6 months of this, fletcher lost dozens of pounds and came down with shingles. took him several more months to recover and return to the front line
@Rod I feel bad that your mind has been so poisoned that you feel the need to comment politically on a complete non-political statement. Maybe some time away from the internet might be a good idea?
Fletcher was an awful! He was constantly wrong. History shows he was always blessed with capable subordinates. The only loss his officers and men couldn't save was Wake Island, hence the low opinion of him by Marines as well as other Admirals. He was quietly given shore duty after 1942.
@@mackhomie6 that was only a month after. Also the IJN thought they were only facing 2 carriers. So even though they did eventually sink Yorktown. They thought they got Enterprise and Hornet.
This situation seems just... So utterly farcical. Everyone's missing everyone else, the two sides being 70 miles apart and never knowing... I can only imagine that there was lots of swearing once all the After-Action Reports were compiled.
Its the first time in history two naval fleets have ever fought a battle without being able to directly see each other, they were never going to get it right the first time.
It was a new kind of warfare and both navies were making up the rules as they went but missed opportunities were the norm before GPS. Early in WWII in the Mediterranean the Italians were out with a cruiser group looking for a British cruiser group. At the same time in the same area the French had a cruiser group out looking for the Italians. In all the maneuvering at one point all three groups were within thirty miles of each other and never spotted each other. A good what if for a miniatures replay is the French and the Italians did ran into each other.
I believe why they where so succesful was because the conditions where ideal for torpedo attack. They didn't have massive amount of flak coming at them and no enemy fighters either, so they had time to line up their attacks perfectly on a allready damaged and probably slowed down carrier. In Midway they didn't have any of those benefits and pretty much got slaughtered before they could make their attacks. Military Aviation History channel made a good video about the TBD that explained all this I just wrote in a more greater detail if you want to learn more.
@Apocalypse21 I've seen several references to "torpedo boats" that seem like a kind of running joke. My investigation of the naval aspects of the Pacific war being somewhat recent, I'm not quite up to speed yet. Can you fill me in on the "torpedo boats" reference? Thanks.
@Apocalypse21 Cool! Thanks for your kind reply, and thanks especially for pointing me in the Drachward direction. In fact, it's on Drach's channel that I've seen most of the "torpedo boats" references. And given his penchant for brilliant (...I think so, anyway) tongue-in-cheek humor, I've gotten the impression that the joke is based on one of the witticisms Drach sprinkles throughout his excellent videos. Thanks again, amigo. 😎
It's a shame Yorktown'ts planes didn't target the rest of the flotilla, rather than striking an overkilling blow on the light carrier. But, as said by someone else in the comments, hindsight is 20/20.
The US got a lot of lessons learned from Coral Sea, they managed to take some onboard by Midway, but even then control of the strikes was luck more than design.
Those US Aircrew behind it didn't know how many hits that Shoho was already striked, they are not even aware if it was fleet or light carrier, but they focus mostly on them, because 'light carrier is more important than Battleship'.
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nice
Are you Tomographic? Either you are him, either you have almost identical voices. 🤔
Does not make me confident that someone put U.S.S. Idaho on a Royal Navy King George V Class battleship.
cease
Do what you've gotta do to pay the bills, man. I love your content and am glad you've got these opportunities.
the most confusing thing about this battle is that the American Mk 14 torpedoes actually managed to sink something
Well that was because they didn't use the MK 14 on the Shōhō...MK 13 was used...the early MK 13s worked very well. Really killed the Shōhō. But after they ran of of them they used the later version of the 13 (with propellers after the fins) on the other two Japanese carriers.. with very poor results.
@@deafsmith1006 they were using the same Mk. 13s at Midway a month later and those performed in a manner that should have resulted in summary court martials for everyone at BuOrd who even _thought_ of the word 'torpedo'.
@@marckyle5895bro replied a year later, hope he finds this message
@@-ZM_Gaming- No worries if he doesn't
Despite the bureau of ordinance's best efforts some of the mk-14's did actually work as intended, 20% of them to be specific.
It amuses me how many of these stories start with "however, American/British code breakers...".
Germany: "This is the plan. Got it?"
Japan: "Yep, cool"
Italy: "Yep, cool"
US/UK: "Yep, cool"
🤣
US/UK: *ducks back behind fence separating them from the neighbors*
Code breakers were so important to the war effort. If it weren't for them, the war probably would have been much different.
@@Igzilee same end result but after much more destruction and death
The British broke the main code for Nazi Germany early on and had to use it strategically as to not alarm them that they had broken it.
Those carrier planes overkilling the Shoho just want the assists.
American aviators we're untested and just a bit cocky. They had similar problems during the Marshal Island Raid in February, and will still at Midway the month next.
Hey man, anything for an additional EXP's.
Meanwhile, the ablazed crew on the Shōhō: This is fine
The lack of situational awareness compared to today reminds me of reading Cujo. Written in a time when cell phones weren't a thing is all that makes the peril in that story believable.
And the fact that all of King's stories take place in New England explains why no one has a gun to just shoot the damn thing.
@@benn454 Yeah we are pretty hamstrung here.
Shouhou: _"Oh boy, I sure do love being an IJN carrier"_
^^ *Clueless*
Shouhou 15 minutes later: *_"My day be so fine. Then boom; Fletcher"_*
"A further 11 1,000 pound bomb hits, and 10 more torpedo hits" This is literally the "Stop stop he's already dead" meme. Jesus Christ.
I feel like that Japanese Light Carrier was a guy who messed up with the wrong gang and got beaten down by an angry mob, then it was dragged in the streets, rolled over by a truck, then it was set on fire. Then it got loaded on a plane, dropped off that plane 3,000m in the sky without a parachute. It was then shot by machine gun fire for 30 minutes, followed by an artillery strike. Whatever was left of it got chopped into perfect one inch cubes only to be dropped in lava.
I've rarely seen such an overkill in naval warfare.
The attack on the Shoho is the equivalent of scoring a hit in battleship and then spending the next 20 turns calling that exact same location.
Hindsight is 20/20. If someone made WWII in a 100% historically accurate strategy game, nobody would play it. Lmao
I do play War on the Sea though, and it's pretty accurate regarding fog of war/reconnaissance and such
Shoho is the definition of overkill
Absolutely love that you show the planes taking off,also well done on all the effort on this
Thanks a lot!
16:00 why did the B26s try to bomb friendly ships lmao
Holy overkill Batman, that’s a lot of punishment oh that carrier
This is like a game of hide and seek where both of the players are actually seeking each other
Search and destroy at its finest!
3:38 ah yes the legendary simplicity of Japanese operations design
Outstanding, as always, by ”The Ops Room.” Wish my late WW2 dad could watch this. He was involved in the defense of Port Moresby, which if Coral Sea and Santa Cruz had been lost, would’ve been very bloody for the US and its allies.
Now that's overkill.
They smashed that jqp carrier holysmokes
I'll consider this my birthday present. Thanks. Can't wait for part 2
Shoho translated into English means overkill….
That said, a nice warmup for the absolute carnage to come.
Jesus christ they REALLY wanted to sink the Shoho 🤣. Almost 20 bomb hits and not far off 15 torp hits. MURICA
Blind Luck or divine intervention that IJN missed sinking Yorktown and Lexington giving there pilots bombing the Shoho a safe place to return.
Just finished Ian Toll series and I’m onto The Fleet at Flood Tide. Great timing
You put a lot of emphasis on that last tomorrow. Part 2 releasing tomorrow confirmed?! One of the best history channels on yt, keep up the amazing work!
Shoho: Exists
US Navy Carrier Attack Aircraft: "And we took that personally."
Pilot1: where enemy?
Pilot2:where enemy?
Pilot3:where enemy?
If the US had delayed the Doolittle raid they the Enterprise and Hornet would have been available to be used in the Coral Sea.... Imagine 4 US carriers there... and the overwhelming attack and defense capability they would have had.
Montemayor made an awesome vid on this too. Totally check him out. I think he did some other battles too
@Bobert Grunsch same lol
Damn the Shoho got absolutely obliterated
Biggest bruh moment in Naval history
Two blindfolded men in a dark room swinging sledgehammers at random...
This is what you get when you research a subject correctly.
Well done sir and thank you. 👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
ILY Thanks for the video!!
So if the high end estimates are taken, Shoho was hit by 12 bombs and 15 torpedoes. For comparison, the Yamato took 11 torpedoes and 6 bombs to sink. Her sister, Musashi, took 19 torpedoes and 17 bombs, most due to attacks coming from both sides instead of coordinating on one, like what was later done with Yamato. The Shoho was 674 feet long, 59 feet wide, and weighed 11,443 tonnes standard. The Yamato class were 863 feet long, 128 feet wide, and weighed 72,800 tonnes at full load.
Now that's a paddling.
Your videos are unbelievably good. Thanks for making them
Thanks for this . It can be difficult to find details on the Coral Sea battle even though it is one of the first major battles of the pacific and so close to home (I am Aussie) .
Fascinating, I could watch these for hours
Grace: Lmao, its the Air Force
Saw the teaser and thought damn, have to wait till October for your next video. Guess not!
The IJN, likely for fuel limitations, was far too parsimonious with their fleet assets. They had no other plans in the works as important as this, and they anticipated US opposition, yet underallocated available resources dramatically.
Good one at 16:25!
Does anyone else besides me find themselves checking daily for Operations Room videos!
Great! Can't wait for part 2.
Well that was a cluster fuck!! On both sides
Sheesh I’m still waiting on part 2 of black hawk down 😂 this year all part 1s. Next year all part 2s lmao
Ahh, the hold pin the torpedo on the carrier game.
i'm not surprised the us carrier groups were confuse, i was confused just watching!
This battle is just is very confusing for both factions
15:20 talk about over kill😳
Love the narrator voice too 🛡⚔️❤️🤙
I can't wait for you to do the Battle of the Philippine Sea
beautifull
RIP Shoho
Hate to see it 😕
Liked, commented.
Time to watch.
Hope you enjoy!
great video but what happened to black hawk down pt 2?
Well done thank you
When are we getting part 2 of the Battle of Mogadishu?
On Naval battles, The Operations Room should list the names of the ships involved.
For example 16:26 - TF17 what's it composed of? Which ships are on it? 14:02 - Shoho Force. Again what ships are attached to it, which classes, and which ships?
I love your videos especially regarding naval operations! You cover them in such superb detail! Keep up the great work!
Are you guys gonna do a blackhawk down part 2?
bro call of war is so fun i play it before you said you are sponsored by call of war but it is hard
Pretty sure that the Shoho was backwards. otherwise great video!
Comment for the RUclips algorithm.
That advert says you could build an alliance as strong as the allies in ww2.
Are they aware of what happened immediately after ww2? 🤔
Strong alliance 10/10
Make a video about operation barbarosa. 😊
Lots of facepalms i imagine from generals.
I never realised just how complex and frequent the war in the south Pacific actually was.
Notification squad
Where’s part 2 of the battle of coral sea?
Dang, they really wanted to put Soho down
I wonder why navy ships didn’t have a system of releasing smoke screens when they were in danger from an air attack… seems like it would have been a useful tool
They can by releasing oil into the engine to create thick black smoke from the smoke stack. But its meant mostly against enemy surface ships, I think.
think 3d
aircraft are above the ships
smokescreens were used by the Tirpitz - but it was not moving
I believe some subs did
It's because they were morons
@@eski152 i mean im thinking 3d, if they have tons and tons of smoke pouring out the stacks going into the sky i would think that would create a screen from above and even if it gives you a few extra percentage of a chance to get miss by a bomb it seems worth it
Please do Bay of Pigs
It was a Tuesday, of course.
Where are the enemy located
POG
Love you guys and girls 💖 over in the o p room
Maybe this is in the works already, but me and I'm sure many others would like to see Operation Red Wings covered by TOR.
What a nail-biter!
I am laughing very hard at wave after wave of aircraft attacking the T17 Support Group, and the last wave is actually US bombers, like the confused looking around scene from Pulp Fiction.
Really shows how incredibly confusing situations like this actually are. Both sides are on the razors edge of failure.
“Fortunately their bombing, like the Japanese’s, was disgraceful.”
Ya burnt!
Reminds me of that time British Swordfish bombers tried to sink the HMS Sheffield, thinking it was the Bismarck.
@@AudieHolland they would sunk her but for the explodey magnetic fuses on the torpedoes.
Which one?
When you're not sure if the burning, flooding light carrier is gonna sink, so you triple and quadruple tap it just to be sure.
Well,it was a carrier.Priority target #1 after Pearl.
Dude, so true, that shit got me laughing bro
If it was a US carrier, there definitely would have been the possibility of the damage control parties putting the fires out and stopping the leaks.
Something like this almost happened at the Battle of Midway. When the two SBD squadrons from the Enterprise finally came across the carriers, everyone started to follow the lead attackers onto one carrier, the Kagi. Fortunately, a Lieutenant Best recognized this error and took his group to attack a second carrier, Akagi. Had he not done so, the Japanese would have had two carriers rather than just one after this attack.
I laughed so fucking hard when I watched that
Task Force 17: This is an attack.
Shoho: Dear god.
Task Force 17: There's more.
Shoho: No...
(Hits her 21 more times)
The Billy Mays style of warfare.
Zukaku and shokaku :rip our friend light carrier shoho
5th Carrier Division avenging Shoho: *you sunk our light carrier, we sunk your fleet carrier*
@@yoseipilot Shokaku and Zuikaku: You touch my ship, I will break your fucking knees
*Proceeds to nae nae on Lexington*
5th Carrier Division launch her strike and finding Task Force 17: *''scratch the bathtub''*
The more I watch these videos, the more I realize how accurate the Battleship board game is
Naval Warfare in a nutshell :
"Where the fuck are they? And where the fuck are we?"
@@geniemiki *_"Where the fuck I am?"_*
-Russian CSGO map creator/Every sailor in WW2
Why am I?
@@advanced0018 how am I?
@@w4rl0rd93 who am I?
It's amazing how the Pacific war reshaped the concept of naval warfare. Essentially overnight most traditional naval tactics became obsolete and the strategy became centered around these massive games of hide and seek. Find the carriers, and send everything you can possibly send to kill them. Do that, and you win.
And after that, naval warfare just became find the ships, since enemy is unlikely to have carriers now, and throw a few salvos of cruise missiles against them. Naval warfare severely shrank after this war
@@earlbinvicoalthough to be fair there haven't been major powers going at it, at sea, since ww2. If China ever has a go at Taiwan we will get a look.
What a lovely surprise on a Saturday afternoon.
Agreed. Especially this time of year.
I get ‘em Sunday morning in Aus - perfect!
It's Monday morning
sunday morning
Love the USA and Japan war at sea 👍😊
This Illustrated to me better than any other lesson I've had so far the amount of confusion and blind stabbing in the dark that led up to this battle, which none of the time could have known was so pivotal.
I think montemayor made a pretty good video on it
Being an Admiral leading a task force in this situation sounds like the most stressful thing imaginable. So many decisions to make, so much information coming in (often inaccurate), and any wrong decision can spell doom for the task force or even doom for their country's efforts in the theater.
that is the reason not everyone in a Navy becomes Admiral.
@@lapin46 very true
@@lapin46 We in the future are so lucky we had these men in charge and in battle back 80 years. And that's theunderstatement o f understatements.
facts. seems like the hardest job in the world because if you fail you and hundreds of your comrades die
after 6 months of this, fletcher lost dozens of pounds and came down with shingles. took him several more months to recover and return to the front line
imagine the feeling of your CO telling you that you just cost the United States 2 carriers. I dont even want to imagine that feeling
I'd just clear the bridge with a major Fart.
@Rod democRAT lol
@Rod I feel bad that your mind has been so poisoned that you feel the need to comment politically on a complete non-political statement. Maybe some time away from the internet might be a good idea?
@@Alexander_Grant Some time away from the internet would be good to all of us
Fletcher was an awful! He was constantly wrong. History shows he was always blessed with capable subordinates. The only loss his officers and men couldn't save was Wake Island, hence the low opinion of him by Marines as well as other Admirals. He was quietly given shore duty after 1942.
There is also the fact that the Japanese aircraft mistakenly thought Yorktown was a friendly air carrier later in the battle.
*Lands on Yorktown*
"Hey, why.... why.. uh.. did we capture American planes or.."
the Yorktown must have been the ultimate zombie boogeyman by the end of the war for the japanese
@@mackhomie6 no. That was Enterprise.
@@ph89787 I dunno. midway?
@@mackhomie6 that was only a month after. Also the IJN thought they were only facing 2 carriers. So even though they did eventually sink Yorktown. They thought they got Enterprise and Hornet.
This situation seems just... So utterly farcical. Everyone's missing everyone else, the two sides being 70 miles apart and never knowing... I can only imagine that there was lots of swearing once all the After-Action Reports were compiled.
Fog of war is a bitch. This is why satellites, FLIR, and GPS are so crucial.
This was the first carrier vs carrier battle. Nobody got it right on the first try.
Imagine the faces of the admirals if they could see this video today
Its the first time in history two naval fleets have ever fought a battle without being able to directly see each other, they were never going to get it right the first time.
It was a new kind of warfare and both navies were making up the rules as they went but missed opportunities were the norm before GPS. Early in WWII in the Mediterranean the Italians were out with a cruiser group looking for a British cruiser group. At the same time in the same area the French had a cruiser group out looking for the Italians. In all the maneuvering at one point all three groups were within thirty miles of each other and never spotted each other. A good what if for a miniatures replay is the French and the Italians did ran into each other.
Imagine you're a sailor operating on flight deck of Yorktown or Lexington and see Japanese planes tried to land on your ship
*Task Force 17.3 got attack by Japan and US planes*
Task Force 17.3: WTF! Did we piss off someone?!
Thank god they are shit shots.
Sir that last pass was the army.
A pleasant stormtrooper moment! :p
@@OrDuneStudios Ah that's why
Damn, they kinda went overboard when they turned the Shoho into scrap metal
PEARL FUCKING HARBOR
@@offensivebias1898 ok?
When even overwhelming firepower isnt enough so you go full dakka.
i don't think anyone's gonna be finding much to scrap after that much damage...
You forgot about Nanking didn’t you. No such thing as overboard when killing imperial Japanese
Wow, the new animation of carrier aircraft launches looks really sharp!
I agree. What a exciting surprise when the camera zoomed in and showed the aircraft launching one by one.
Great production quality, 10/10! When will the second part of the Battle of Modigashu come out?
Very soon, hopefully 🤞
Wow, the IJN Shoho wasn't sunk, it was slaughtered. Interesting to see the TBD's did accomplish something of note before the butchery at Midway.
I believe why they where so succesful was because the conditions where ideal for torpedo attack. They didn't have massive amount of flak coming at them and no enemy fighters either, so they had time to line up their attacks perfectly on a allready damaged and probably slowed down carrier. In Midway they didn't have any of those benefits and pretty much got slaughtered before they could make their attacks. Military Aviation History channel made a good video about the TBD that explained all this I just wrote in a more greater detail if you want to learn more.
@@pyorre2441 Exactly, at Midway it was an actual combat situation, and the TBDs proved unfit for such conditions, unfortunately
And IJN Shoho was *only* carrier that was hit by TBD Devastor with Mk.13 old Torpedo
Ah. The Battle of the Coral Sea. Also known as the naval version of "It is a Tiger!"
Is this a reference to allied tankers claiming any tank they see in Normandy is a tiger? Even though there were barely any tigers assigned there?
@@Rokaize Yep
@Apocalypse21 I've seen several references to "torpedo boats" that seem like a kind of running joke. My investigation of the naval aspects of the Pacific war being somewhat recent, I'm not quite up to speed yet. Can you fill me in on the "torpedo boats" reference? Thanks.
@Apocalypse21 Cool! Thanks for your kind reply, and thanks especially for pointing me in the Drachward direction. In fact, it's on Drach's channel that I've seen most of the "torpedo boats" references. And given his penchant for brilliant (...I think so, anyway) tongue-in-cheek humor, I've gotten the impression that the joke is based on one of the witticisms Drach sprinkles throughout his excellent videos. Thanks again, amigo. 😎
God damn, Shoho is the ultimate case of "Stop, its already dead!"
People who watched the teaser earlier:
"They got us in the first half not gonna lie"
For real, he’s playing with our emotions now
It's a shame Yorktown'ts planes didn't target the rest of the flotilla, rather than striking an overkilling blow on the light carrier.
But, as said by someone else in the comments, hindsight is 20/20.
The rule of war of the sea is the aircraft carrier is the first priority since the commander is mostly station as long as she float target her more!!
The US got a lot of lessons learned from Coral Sea, they managed to take some onboard by Midway, but even then control of the strikes was luck more than design.
Those US Aircrew behind it didn't know how many hits that Shoho was already striked, they are not even aware if it was fleet or light carrier, but they focus mostly on them, because 'light carrier is more important than Battleship'.