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The motif in Space Battleship Yamato was repeated in Silent Service, a popular manga and anime that explores issues of nuclear weapons and the Japan–U.S. relationship. It tells the story of a nuclear-powered super submarine whose crew mutinies and renames the vessel Yamato, in allusion to the World War II battleship and the ideals she symbolises.
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 ...
USS Hoel: Sunk by battleships Yamato and Nagato and heavy cruiser Haguro during the battle off Samar, 25 October 1944. USS Jarvis: Sunk by land based aircraft in the aftermath of the battle of Savo Island, 9 August 1942.. USS Johnston: Sunk by primarily gunfire from battleship Yamato during the battle off Samar, 25 October 1944.
Both ships underwent significant modernization on 1934–1936, rebuilding the superstructure into the more familiar pagoda mast style. Yamato-class: Battleship: Yamato (1941–1945) Musashi (1942–1944) 69,988 tonnes 5 planned, 1 converted into an Aircraft carrier, 2 cancelled. Yamato was sunk during a one-way trip to Okinawa during operation ...
Operation Ten-Go (天号作戦, Ten-gō Sakusen), also known as Operation Heaven One (or Ten-ichi-gō 天一号), was the last major Japanese naval operation in the Pacific Theater of World War II. In April 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato , the largest battleship in the world, and nine other Japanese warships, embarked from Japan for a ...
Yamato – The largest battleship ever built, she was sunk on 7 April by torpedo planes from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet and others. 280 of Yamato ' s 2,778 crew were rescued. This was the greatest loss of life in a single warship in World War II. 2,498 Navy 1944 Japan
The ship was knocked out of the war and although repaired, she did not see active service after World War II. She was scrapped in 1973. USS Wasp (CV-18), on 19 March 1945, was hit with a 500 lb armor-piercing bomb which penetrated both the flight and hangar decks, then exploded in the crew's galley. Many of her shipmates were having breakfast ...
Yamato and Musashi, the two largest battleships ever built [153] The Yamato-class battleships (大和型戦艦, Yamato-gata senkan) were built at the beginning of the Pacific War. The ships were the largest and most heavily armed battleships ever constructed. [154] Two ships (Yamato and Musashi) were completed as battleships, while a third was ...