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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.
The sinking of Yamato was seen as a major American victory, and Hanson W. Baldwin, the military editor of The New York Times, wrote that "the sinking of the new Japanese battleship Yamato ... is striking proof—if any were needed—of the fatal weakness of Japan in the air and at sea". [37]
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 ...
USS Johnston: Sunk by primarily gunfire from battleship Yamato during the battle off Samar, 25 October 1944. USS Laffey: Torpedoed and sunk by destroyer Yukikaze during Naval battle of Guadalcanal, 13 November 1942. [11] [12] USS Little: Sunk by Kamikazes, 3 May 1945; USS Luce: Sunk by Kamikazes, 4 May 1945.
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 ...
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 – 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
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 ...