IJN Yamato
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The
Japanese battleship Yamato was together with her sister
ship Musashi
the worlds largest battleships ever built at that time.
She participated in many battles of second world war, but
only fired her guns one time before her last battle in
1945. In the American upcoming invasion of Okinawa, the
Japanese admiralty assigned Yamato, one cruiser and eight
destroyers to assist the island, in Operation Ten-Go. She
left Tokuyama 6.April and already the morning after she
was spotted by American forces. She was constantly
shadowed by two American sea planes, and at 12:30 the
first wave of 280 American planes were ready for battle.
Several waves of attacks followed and Yamato was hit by
eleven torpedoes and six bombs. She developed a strong
listing, and
disappeared in the deep two hours later, and right
before she capsized, one of her magazines exploded and
broke her in two parts. 3055
men of her crew lost their life in the intense battle and
the sinking.
The
mighty wreck rest today on a depth of 340 meter, some 290
kilometer southwest of Kyushu.
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