Haruna provides a brief damage-control contrast with Taiho. Two bombs struck the battleship, including one on a main-battery turret, yet she remained in formation. Her captain ordered the associated magazine flooded rather than risk fire or blast reaching its ammunition. That action sacrificed immediate fighting capacity to preserve the ship. Haruna's survival depended as much on the immediate response to the hit as on the bomb damage itself.
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Haruna's captain contains a turret hit
After bombs hit Haruna, prompt magazine flooding prevented a turret strike from becoming a catastrophic battleship loss.