Talk:Furutaka/@comment-24246774-20131208131113/@comment-66.133.226.3-20140114081359

its related to Aoba's story. During battle of savo island, Aoba(flagship) and her fleet encountered US taskforce during midnight and mistook them as Japanese landing team. So, Aoba sent them light signal and of course US answered with gunfire. Everyone but fleet commander on board of Aoba believed the "landing team" get confused and ordered Aoba to keep sending signal (and of course US fired back more shells) Unfortunately, first hit on the Aoba struck her bridge, and damaged crews hard. To save her flagship, Furutaka turned her searchlight on and cover Aoba from gunfire--and ultimately that was her demise.