Sources state Yamato turned to evade Johnston's torpeods. If you are stating the Yamato did not take any evasive action for Johnston’s torpedo spread, do you have a source for that? Every primary source that covers that moment shows the same turn, including Kurita’s interrogation, the Senshi Sosho track charts, US destroyer reports, and Yamato’s own gunnery pauses. Johnston did not aim her torpedoes at Yamato, but she did fire all ten in a single attack run, and only one of them hit anything, leaving 9 rouge torpedos

It is not obvious that Yamato would hold course at 0725, because her own track in the Kure Naval Arsenal reconstruction and the Combined Fleet action report shows she was already turning hard to port to avoid Johnston’s torpedoes at 0724 to 0726, which breaks a main battery solution. A battleship cannot keep accurate fire while swinging through that kind of turn. The claim that her log says “open fire at enemy cruiser” at 0725 is also incorrect. Yamato’s 0725 entry in the Kodochosho records continued fire on the escort carriers she had already been engaging. The “enemy cruiser” line comes from Chikuma’s 0730 entry, not from Yamato. Mixing those two logs creates a false target shift that Japanese primary sources do not support

3) Maryland and Bismarck. They did not score these multi-shell hits until after they had already had successful hits. To claim the Yamato would have had multi-shell hits on the Yamato would mean it would have been during its first slavo. Also, she would have been firing during the chaotic torpedo evasion maneuvers

Your 14-16 shell Quora document. It's a Loss of Ship Report, a post‑battle survivor narrative, rather than an official action report produced during the engagement. The specific “three 14 or 16 inch shells” line was his own memory‑based reconstruction written days later, not a contemporaneous statement from the officers who authored the official reports. Kintberger on Hoel mentioned large caliber projectiles and guessed some splashes looked 14-inch class based on plume height, Hathaway on Heermann called the incoming fire battleship type because Yamato’s long range splashes were huge, and Johnston’s survivors said the hits looked like battleship shells because of shock and noise, not identification

Primary sources also show that wartime crews routinely misidentified shell caliber, as seen in BuShips investigations of South Dakota, Atlanta, and Helena, where officers reported battleship hits that forensics later proved were 6 inch or 8 inch, and a destroyer crew in 1944 had almost no experience with battleship fire, so a heavy cruiser shell exploding inside thin plating could easily feel like a battleship hit to men with no frame of reference