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English: Operation "Ten-Go", 7 April 1945: Smoke rises to the clouds shortly after the Japanese battleship Yamato capsized, exploded and sank after receiving many bomb and torpedo hits from U.S. Navy carrier planes north of Okinawa. Two escorting destroyers are visible to the left of the smoke.
In October 1974, Leiji Matsumoto created a television series, Space Battleship Yamato, about rebuilding the battleship as a starship and its interstellar quest to save Earth. The series was a huge success, spawning eight feature films and four more TV series, the most recent of which was released in 2017.
Yamato communicated this message to the other surviving ships by signal flag because her radios had been destroyed. [46] Only known photo of Yamato exploding [33] Itō, along with Captain Kōsaku Aruga, who commanded Yamato for the battle, refused to abandon ship, with Itō retiring to the flag cabin while Aruga tied himself to the binnacle. [47]
TOKYO (AP) - A former crewmember on a Japanese battleship that sank during World War II says he recognizes photos taken of wreckage discovered this week off the Philippines by a team led by ...
Much like battlecruisers, battleships typically sank with large loss of life if and when they were destroyed in battle.The first battleship to be sunk by gunfire alone, [4] the Russian battleship Oslyabya, sank with half of her crew at the Battle of Tsushima when the ship was pummeled by a seemingly endless stream of Japanese shells striking the ship repeatedly, killing crew with direct hits ...
Yamato, and especially the story of her sinking, has appeared often in Japanese popular culture, such as the anime Space Battleship Yamato and the 2005 film Yamato. [83] The appearances in popular culture usually portray the ship's last mission as a brave, selfless, but futile, symbolic effort by the participating Japanese sailors to defend ...
Requiem for Battleship Yamato (戦艦大和ノ最期, lit. The Last Days of the Battleship Yamato (Senkan Yamato no Saigo)) is a book by Mitsuru Yoshida. It tells the story of the Japanese battleship Yamato's last battle, Operation Ten-Go in 1945, when the ship was sunk, which the author experienced himself. It was first published in 1949.
A U.S. Navy destroyer escort that engaged a superior Japanese fleet in the largest sea battle of World War II in the Philippines has become the deepest wreck to be discovered, according to explorers.