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  2. Requiem for Battleship Yamato - Wikipedia

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    Requiem for Battleship Yamato (戦艦大和ノ最期, lit. The Last Days of the Battleship Yamato (Senkan Yamato no Saigo)) is a book by Mitsuru Yoshida. It tells the story of the Japanese battleship Yamato's last battle, Operation Ten-Go in 1945, when the ship was sunk, which the author experienced himself. It was first published in 1949.

  3. Operation Ten-Go - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Japanese battleship Yamato - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Last stand - Wikipedia

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    A last stand is a military situation in which a body of troops holds a defensive position in the face of overwhelming and virtually insurmountable odds. [1] Troops may make a last stand due to a sense of duty; because they are defending a tactically crucial point; to buy time to enable a trapped army, person, or group of people to escape; due ...

  6. A Glorious Way to Die - Wikipedia

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    In A Glorious Way to Die, Russell Spurr recounts the final mission of Japanese battleship Yamato.He describes the events that led to the decision by the Japanese at Combined Fleet headquarters to send Yamato, the pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy, on a suicide mission against the American Pacific Fleet during the Battle of Okinawa near the end of World War II.

  7. Battle off Samar - Wikipedia

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    Based on the bearing and the angle of fall, it is far more likely that they were 18.1-inch (46 cm) shells fired by Yamato from a range of 10.029 nmi (11.541 mi; 18.574 km), as, moments later, three 6.1-inch (155 mm) shells from Yamato struck Johnston ' s bridge, causing numerous casualties and severing the fingers of Commander Evans's left hand ...

  8. Yamato-class battleship - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. List of last stands - Wikipedia

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    A last stand is a last-resort tactic that is used if retreat or surrender is impossible or fighting is essential to the success of the cause. The defending force is most likely defeated, but it sometimes survives long enough for reinforcements to arrive that force the retreat of the attackers; it can even occasionally force the enemy away by ...