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Around 115 aircraft—many of them kamikazes—attacked the U.S. ships throughout 7 April. Kamikaze aircraft hit the aircraft carrier Hancock, battleship Maryland, and destroyer Bennett, causing moderate damage to Hancock and Maryland and severe damage to Bennett. About 100 Japanese aircraft were lost in the attack. [58]
31 August 1945 [1] Fate: Sunk by American planes during Operation Ten-Go, 7 April 1945: General characteristics (as built) Class and type: Yamato-class battleship: Displacement: 65,027 t (64,000 long tons) (normal) 71,659 t (70,527 long tons) Length: 263 m (862 ft 10 in) Beam: 38.9 m (127 ft 7 in) Draft: 11 m (36 ft 1 in) Installed power
Between 09:06 and 09:17 Yamato received multiple strafing and torpedo attacks from US aircraft, claiming one US aircraft shot down at 09:15. Fighter pilot Lieutenant Richard W. Roby reportedly attacked destroyers before raking the decks and then bridge of Yamato with his .50 in (12.7 mm) machine guns, further discouraging her. [ 70 ]
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy, scheduled an inspection tour of the Solomon Islands and New Guinea.He planned to inspect Japanese air units participating in Operation I-Go that had begun 7 April 1943; in addition, the tour would boost Japanese morale following the disastrous Guadalcanal campaign and its subsequent evacuation during January and February.
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. ...
1 attack cargo: Algorab Transport Division 38 4 attack transports: Barnstable, Elmore, Alpine, Lycoming 1 attack cargo: Alshain 1 landing ship dock: Epping Forest Transport Division 39 4 attack transports: Custer, Freestone, Kittson, Baxter 2 attack cargos: Algol, Arneb Transport Division 13 4 attack transports: Appling, Butte, Audrain, Laurens
Flight 93. A fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, met a different fate.According to the 9/11 Commission Report issued years later, passengers managed to overpower the hijackers on this plane ...
18 (plus 1 building) (1) 2 Furutaka built 1926-1927; 2 Aoba built 1926-1927; 4 Myōkō built 1928-1929; 4 Takao built 1932; 4 Mogami built 1935-1937(2); 2 Tone built 1941 (1) Ibuki ordered but not laid down (2) Mogamis designated light cruisers but were built to be up-gunned as heavies once the London Naval Treaty was broken.