At combinedfleet.com, the TROM for
Yamato lists 6 certain hits, and say that "several" of the final VTs (6 TBFs) made hits.
That puts the lower limit at 7, the upper limit at 12. That's in addition to a large number of bombs (AP and GP).
Musashi, after 11 torpedo hits (and many bomb hits and near-misses):
Quote:
The departing American pilots report MUSASHI smoking, heavily down by the bow and dead in the water.
MUSASHI is, in fact, down by the bow, but is making 16 knots on three shafts. After counter-flooding, her starboard list is reduced to 1-2 degrees, but her speed falls off to 13 knots.
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Combined fleet then goes on to list the 11 hits of the last attack, including where they hit.
So according to combinedfleet, that's 22 torpedo hits on Musashi.
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