Yamato

[behblc]

Tongith on histopry channle 10.00pm UK - a 1hour programme on the history of and discovery of the rweck of th e Super battleship Yamato.
Looking forward to see it .

[Bobwirtz]

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[behblc]

Yamato.

I was a little disappointed , a great deal of time taken in telling the history of the ship and only a few few pieces of film showing the ship as she is today.
Blown in two - the bow section upright the other section of the ship upside down.
The crafty Amerians hit her one side so she would keel over and an internal explosion blew her apart.

Enjoyed it , but would have likeed to see more of her as she is today.

[GEBIRGS-JAGER]

Yamato

The Montreal international film festival will be premiering the Japanese movie"Yamato" 2006 next week It is not a documentary. Brian www.ffm-montreal.org click on Press, then press releases.

[TMurray]

Funny how everybody thinks so highly of the Yamato, the huge unsinkable Japanese battleship. Her sister ship, Musashi, was sunk during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and the other sister, Shinano, was converted into (at the time the world's largest aircraft carrier) was sunk by the U.S. submarine Archerfish while in transit around Japan. They were huge and powerful, but they were all sunk. I wonder if they've been searching for Yamato's sisters?

Bob

The Yamato was not expected to return from her mission to Okinawa, essentially she was to beach herself and fight until destroyed, just so happened she was sunk by a/c before achieving her objective. From memory she took 10 torpedo hits and about the same hits from bombs before capsizing.

[Federico Perez]

The Yamato battleship is not only considered a huge ship but also one of the more modern of the era, combining new ways of construction and armor as well as firepower, even the hull desing was ahead of it's time. This magnificent ship also show us how technology and new warfare strategys could kill any target no matter how big,fast or armored it is, the downfall of the Yamato was the aircraftcarrier and air superiority, the new way of war on open seas.

The Japanese have opened a new museum in the town where the ship was built and the central exibit is a huge 1/10 SCALE MODEL (80 feet aprox) of the ship wich is truly a masterpiece and one if not the most impresive maritime scale model in the world.

[Bobwirtz]

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