Talk:Colorado/@comment-49.144.137.161-20190527004555/@comment-2606:A000:4807:1F00:34DB:8CF1:FB7B:E3E8-20190527020650

Fletchers were constructed with STS and their protection (no one would call it 'armor') was superior to most other destroyers, but it was still tinfoil compared to the rounds being hurled at Johnston and company by IJN cruisers and battleships. I'm not sure why the IJN was throwing AP shells at them. Could be bad doctrine or just a basic fog of war problem. They thought they were fighting cruisers and fleet carriers at Samar, for one.