17 EAB

0318 IJN CA’s attempt to extricate themselves from a very deadly space by making a port turn. Unfortunately their speed at this point is only between 10-15 kts so they don’t get very far. The USN commander with a similar thought turns every one who can to starboard with the hope of getting into the cover of the squall. Meanwhile DesRon 10 seeing a tight cluster of targets fires 28 Type 93s into arcs that is hoped will miss friendlies but cross the course of the USN CruDiv heading for the squall line. Unfortunately their hopes were dashed when 2 of the type 93s from Agano gutted the Myoko. On the positive side a total of 7 torpedoes hit USN cruisers. The hits resulted in the sinking of Myoko, Columbia, Cleveland and Montpelier. Progressive fire damage and parting gunfire sent Haguro down as well.