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At 10:00, the force turned west to make it look like they were withdrawing, but at 11:30, after being detected by two American PBM Mariner flying boats, the Yamato fired a salvo with her 460 mm (18.1 in) bow guns using special "beehive shells" (三式焼霰弾, san-shiki shōsan dan) but could not prevent the two planes from shadowing. The ...
Super battleship Yamato fitting out several weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor Battleship Nagato Light carrier Hosho. Admiral Yamamoto in Yamato. 1st Battleship Division 1 Yamato-class battleship (9 × 18-in. main battery) Yamato (Rear Adm. Gihachi Takayanagi) 2 Nagato-class battleships (8 × 16-in. main battery) Mutsu (Rear Adm. Gunji Kogure)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (Japanese: トラ・トラ・トラ！) is a 1970 Japanese-American epic war film that dramatizes the events leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, from both American and Japanese positions.
[38] [39] Meanwhile, the heavy cruiser Chikuma landed hits to Gambier Bay ' s flight deck that started a large fire visible in several photographs of the ship under attack. At 8:20, Yamato scored what is commonly attributed as the most fatal hit to the flat top as an 18.1-inch (46 cm) shell hit Gambier Bay ' s engine room below the waterline ...
In 1944, both Yamato and Musashi underwent significant anti-aircraft upgrades in preparation for operations in Leyte Gulf [60] using the space freed up by the removal of both midships 15.5 cm (6.1 in) secondary battery turrets, [61] and ended up with a complement of twenty-four 12.7 cm (5.0 in) guns, [61] and one hundred and sixty-two 25 mm (0. ...
USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73) was a Casablanca-class escort carrier of the United States Navy. [1] During the Battle off Samar, part of the overall Battle of Leyte Gulf, during a successful effort to turn back a much larger attacking Japanese surface force, Gambier Bay was sunk by naval gunfire, primarily from the battleship Yamato, taking at least 15 hits between 8:10 and 8:40.
However, US reports that Yamato closed to within 2,400 yd (2.2 km) of the American ships before she was attacked by American aircraft are not supported by Yamato ' s own action report. [67] At 09:11, Kurita ordered his ships to regroup to the north and at 09:22 Yamato slowed to 20 knots and came round to course 040, finally setting course 000 ...
The first two seasons were filmed in black-and-white, as ABC did not mandate prime time shows to be in color until the 1966-1967 season, but it also allowed the inclusion of actual World War II combat footage supplied by the U.S. Air Force and the library of 20th Century Fox movies. [4]