About Mikasa's Devastation

Hello Mr. DariusP,

BTW I have read on one of Japanese sites that it was USSR and not USA which insisted most strongly on Mikasa's destruction. Have you heard anything about that?

I think it is accepted widely in Japan.
Please refer official "MEMORIAL SHIP MIKASA" site by Mikasa Preservation Society. It describes the Mikasa's devastation briefly in English.

http://www.kinenkan-mikasa.or.jp/en/devastation_after_ww2.html

But, if I discuss the matter closely, I have to get some books such as "ウィロビー回顧録" ( reminiscences of Charles Andrew Willoughby ).