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A second expedition returned to the site two years later, and the team's photographic and video records were later confirmed by one of the battleship's designers, Shigeru Makino, to show the Yamato ' s last resting place. The wreck lies 290 kilometres (180 mi) southwest of Kyushu under 340 metres (1,120 ft) of water in two main pieces; a bow ...
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]
Musashi and Yamato in Truk Lagoon in early 1943. Musashi was commissioned at Nagasaki on 5 August 1942, and assigned to the 1st Battleship Division, together with Yamato, Nagato and Mutsu. [22] Beginning five days later, the ship conducted machinery and aircraft-handling trials near Hashirajima. Her secondary armament of twelve 127 mm guns, 12 ...
Yamato as she appeared c. 1945 (specific configuration from 7 April 1945) In the original design, the Yamato class' secondary armament comprised twelve 15.5 cm/60 Type 3 guns mounted in four 3-gun turrets (one forward, two amidships, one aft), [53] and twelve 12.7 cm/40 Type 89 guns in six double turrets (three on each side amidships). [53]
Behind the museum there is a brick park, a lawn plaza, and the "Yamato Wharf", a 1:1 scale silhouette of Yamato's bridge. West of the museum are located the submersible research ship Shinkai , as well as the original Kure naval arsenal' big lathe (N° 15299) which was used to craft the Yamato's 46 cm/45 Type 94 naval gun .
Yamato was released on over 290 screens across Japan on 17 December 2005. As part of the marketing for the film, Tamiya released special editions of scale models of the battleship in conjunction with the film's release. [2] The company also built a special 1:350 diorama of the Yamato wreck.
She was laid down on 4 May 1940 at the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal to a modified Yamato-class design: her armor would be 10–20 millimeters (0.4–0.8 in) thinner than that of the earlier ships, as it had proved to be thicker than it needed to be for the desired level of protection, and her heavy anti-aircraft (AA) guns would be the new 65-caliber ...
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.