The Last Battleship: IJN Yamato

She was the largest and most powerful warship ever built she was the IJN Yamato.
April 7 1945: In a last ditch effort to stave off the inevitable, Yamato is sent on a one way mission, the result was a disaster, that would claim the lives of over 2,475 of her crew in the final naval battle of World War II.
The death of the Yamato wasn't just the final nail in the coffin of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Yamato's loss marked the end of an era, an end that began with the sinking of the USS Arizona.

Part II of II

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Artist: Nightwish
Subject: IJN Yamato

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[dialgafanclub99]

if the ijn had better trained pilots, and the yamato & musashi had the crew of the bismarck, it would have avoided defeats in midway and leyte gulf, which pretty much decided ww2

[snakes3425]

@dialgafanclub99

prior to Midway, Japan had one of the best trained and most battle hardended navies, naval and land baised air forces in the world. The problem was pilots and ship crews were never rotated out during their tours and pilots and crews were expected to die with their plaines and ships since surrender was seen as the greatest disgrace one could have. By the time of Leyte Japan's veteran air crews and ship crews were either dead or missing, leaving no one to train the replacements

[alf513]

she foought valiantly to the end, not lay at harbor to be bomber bait.

she would not die without a fight, it is only fitting that she fought a last stand.

R.I.P Yamato

[warbossgrotsmasha23]

too bad yamato was on the wrong side, with a fleet of ships like that the americans could have easily mastered the waves and kept the russians from threatening the world with their communist ideology

[Padovano640]

@tridbant

Sorry to tell you...

But Subjugating Nations to own interest is exactly the US politics since 1945....

[m4mihulja]

If the Yamato's fleet shot down 10 USN planes with 200x AA guns (15, 25, 125, 460mm) from Yamato, 50x AA guns (15, 25, 100mm) from Akizuki's (Best WW II AA destroyers), and 50x more (15, 25, 127mm) AA from IJN CL's, in operation Ten-Go...

Then USN are indestructible Gods, with planes of 600km/h speed and armor of 500mm (At least, USA says that...)

[sol3a1]

@dialgafanclub99 "3.) The Bismarck was hit by a lucky (i mean, REALLY lucky) torpedo to the rudder. That possibly can't reflect on it's crew"

There seemed to have been a lot of "lucky rudder hits" on KM ships in WW2

Could that have been a design flaw instead?

[GaboMyung]

@rebsunrise the german battleship "KMS Bismarck"

[GhostKiller755]

@dialgafanclub99 i know at the battle of leyte gulf he got scared of destroyers but im glad that hapend

[edsmale]

@animal33213 every single natural disaster in USA since 1945=less dead then one day tsunami in Japan...so? speak now, if you want to count bodies as measure of karma, JAPAN LOOSE **AGAIN**

[edsmale]

@animal33213 katrina+spill+another hurrican=nothing compared to tsunami...hope you enjoy that

[edsmale]

@animal33213 I wonder what karma cause tsunami and melt down or atomic reactors, AFTER the gulf oil slick? Im pretty sure 20,000 dead tsunami victims is worse then a few oily shrimp. So "lol" to you too. Maybe YOU caused the tsunami yourself with your karma..MURDERER

[edsmale]

@Padovano640 Your own leaders destroyed your country, if they didnt invade china and didnt attack america, nothing would have happened. But your country chose the path or war, not USA..we just won and finished what Japan started, so stop your bitterness and face reality