Yamato-Class: The Story Of The Largest Battleships Ever

19FortyFive ^ | 2/8/2021 | Peter Suicu

[logi_cal869]

I spent a short carrier in the insurance industry...

[Lazamataz]

Unsure why I see lots of people hating on you, on these threads.

[Yo-Yo]

Battleship Yamato, probably:

[z3n]

[EEGator]

[wally_bert]

A favorite kid’s show of mine.

[Leaning Right]

Here’s an account of the Yamato‘s sinking, told by one of her surviving crew members.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/supership/surv-fukumoto.html

[GreenLanternCorps]

I prefer her post-1945 upgrades...

[Army Air Corps]

I loved that show when I was a kid (yeah, I know that it was renamed Starblazers for the US and European markets).

[MikeSteelBe]

I saw Star Blazers as a young adult, and I thought the wave motion gun was cool.

I grew up on the original anime, Speed Racer. We are dating ourselves.

[real saxophonist]

I always wanted a car that could do everything the Mach 5 could do.

[PeterPrinciple]

The Japanese did not want Yamato to have a similar fate or become a war trophy. They preferred a more heroic ending. Accordingly, Yamato would be sent on a final kamikaze mission to Okinawa without enough fuel to return. If Yamato managed to survive the battle, the crew would try to beach it on a nearby island and continue fighting until they had no more ammunition. Then the crew would disembark and join infantry forces on shore in the defense of the island. This plan was called Operation Ten-Go.

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/yamato-kamikaze-battleship.html

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sending a battleship on a kamakazi mission.................

[Huskrrrr]

“So I guess God kept me alive so I could properly mourn the dead and take care of their families. That’s my current purpose in life. If I couldn’t do that, I don’t think I’d be human.”

Sounds like a life well-lived.

[MikeSteelBe]

The Mach 5 was cool. Too bad the Speed Racer 2008 movie kind of sucked.

[PeterPrinciple]

The apparent willingness of Japan to sacrifice so many of its people using suicidal tactics such as Operation Ten-Go and in the Battle of Okinawa reportedly was a factor in the American decision to employ atomic weapons against Japan.[46]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ten-Go

[real saxophonist]

That was a good read. Thanks

[MercyFlush]

The 2008 Speed Racer movie suffered from a bad script, a badly executed mix of CGI and live action, and an acute lack of bad dubbing.

[Daveinyork]

The Jappers apparently did not learn from their own success at Pearl Harbor. The battleship was made obsolete by the aircraft carrier.

[Hazwaste]

Same here. No accounting for what will set some folks off.