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The Sinking of Urakaze: The Bodyguard That Took a Bullet for a Battleship

#NavalHistory #WWII #Documentary #MilitaryHistory #Warships #Urakaze #LongLance #Type93Torpedo In the dead of night on November 21st, 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Urakaze vanished from the face of the earth. There was no distress call, no lengthy battle, and when dawn broke, no survivors or wreckage. There was only a single, brilliant flash in the storm, and then nothing. Two hundred and twenty-eight men and their 2,500-ton warship were erased from existence in a fraction of a second. This documentary explores one of World War II's most chilling naval mysteries, not as a story of combat, but as a forensic investigation into a perfect storm of physics, engineering, and probability. We dissect the fatal intersection of three key factors: a revolutionary but volatile weapon, a precise and sacrificial naval doctrine, and a single stray torpedo that wasn't even meant for the Urakaze. Join us as we analyze the Kagerō-class destroyer, a masterpiece of Japanese naval engineering that carried the seeds of its own destruction. We will delve into the technical marvel and terrifying danger of the Type 93 "Long Lance" torpedo, a weapon so advanced its pure oxygen propellant turned its host ships into floating bombs. Finally, we reconstruct the geometry of the attack by the submarine USS Sealion, showing how a calculated miss on the battleship Kongō became an accidental, and absolute, bullseye on its bodyguard. This is the story of the physics of annihilation, and what it means when a warship doesn't sink, but simply ceases to be. (This video is for educational and commentary purposes. The content utilizes historical accounts, documents, and images under the principles of Fair Use. All efforts have been made to accurately represent the historical events.)