But at least these ships would have been put to some use, yes, it WAS a suicide mission, but come on, there is more honor in that than beaching yourself and using the greatest axis battleship as a shore battery against bombardment ships and landing craft. And, there were no possibilities at this point for and effective IJN attack, but this would have been as close as they could get, do you at least agree to that? No matter what they did, aircraft or 16" american guns would have sunk them, but in this case, they could go down in an attack, and not an intentional beaching.