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The sinking of Musashi at Leyte Gulf is where the USN figured out they needed to torpedo just one side of the ship. Yamato's sister ship took longer to sink because the hits on both sides acted as counter flooding, keeping her from rolling over sooner.
What happened with the Yamato was its rolling caused the other side to no longer be protected by the main belt armor meaning they could deliver the death blow to its soft underbelly.
This was Japan's Pearl Harbour, but concentrated on one ship. I learnt that prior to sinking the Japanese shot down only 3 plane, but Yamato's massive explosion swatted seven planes out if the sky like flies.
For anyone interested in the Japanese perspective, I recommend the book: Japanese Destroyer Captain by Tameichi Hara. He captained the CL Yahagi in this battle. I read this book back in 1969 and found it fascinating.
First of all thank's for sharing this movie. I must say that it remains a sad but glorious end for this mighty battleship and her crew. Hail to Yamato and all these men who have die on her.
I can't understand single word, but it seems to be extremally accurate. Glad to see destroyers beeing present in the battle all the time and the cruiser Yahagi as well. Really great job, since smaller warships are commonly forgotten and not shown in most ducumentaries and simulations. To all of you folks in the comment section. This was in 1945, not in 1944, with less space to manouver and hide, than near Phillipines. Every step taken by Japanese Navy was noticed by both USN and USAF, so they knew what was going to happen from the very beginning. Even with air cover and with more vessels in the battle group, this mission couldn't have succeeded. The IJN fighters would have been swept away from the sky by USN fighter cover (which was present for the entire action - just in case). Strike aircraft would have destroyed only more ships, but in one or two waves more. The entire idea of sending surface ships to intercept invasion fleet in such environment was a complete non-sence. Just compare the losses. With such density of AA guns on IJN ships American Navy lost only 12 planes while having hundreds of them ready to engage. Just a futile waste of men and materials.
Samuel, the Japanese at the time did not in any way consider dying in the service of the Emperor a wasted life. Remember, they decided to start the war. The US decided to finish it
It was thus, also for all but 65 of the ship's company of HMS Jervis Bay, 5th November 1940, and their valiant commander, Captain Edward Steven Fogarty Fegen RN, who was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously for outstanding leadership and courage in the face of certain death.
The thing about having a warship as heavily armoured as this, is the fact that you literally have to pulverise it to sink it,just look at Musashi which they,ve just found,same thing,absolutely mangled.This fact gave the crew little chance of surviving such a vicious bombardment.
@@ghostdiaries369 Japanese short-ranged anti-aircraft guns were notoriously inadequate for their role. They had bad accuracy due to being only manually aimed, turned too slowly and had small magazines. The Japanese tried to put as much of these guns as possible on their warships as they can but it didn't really help much since short-range AA are essentially just "revenge" weapons since at the range they would start to become effective, the aircraft they're trying to hit would already have dropped a bomb or torpedo and would already have begun to fly away.
@@ghostdiaries369 They had only enough manpower and resources to either build more of what they had already OR to try to develop a new AA gun (or any significant new weapon, really) not both since Japan was still locked in a rather large war with China when it decided to attack the US. Japan did manage to capture a few samples of the famed 40mm Bofors guns (an excellent medium ranged AA used by both the US and UK) but it is unknown if they had plans to actually mass produce the design. Anyways, the lackluster AA guns were only part of the problem of the Japanese navy. They also lacked the other things that made the American AA so effective like centralized fire control, proximity fuze shells and tactics (US ships typically focused AA fire on an air defense sector while on Japanese ships it was every ship for herself).
After seeing the Yamato and Bismarck and the Tirpitz history, one factor is proven and unspoken. these countries only used those giant ships as either a last resort or en easy mission weapon. They spent too much time prizing Tirpitz in that fiord in Norway, and that dumb admiral not firing back at the hood on bismark till the captain overstepped him and took over, is more than enough proof this factor made Yamato suffer the same fate.
Miguel Rivera battleships during theater wars were almost literally pointless the ships were most effective in the idea of moral support, as in Oh look at the huge battleship our country made! We're the best! in doing that it gave the soldiers of said country (Germany and Japan for real life) the idea that their country was in fact the best, and gave them hope for winning the war and extreme levels of encouragement.
@@jacobrcoll right plus battleships were very expensive to being build and maintained cause they carry so much fuel and ammunition could have bankrupt any nation whoever planned to construct them as WW2 approached AirPower dominated the battleship no matter how big or powerful you build a battleship it will always fall victim to airpower battleships were mostly useless during WW2 only a few battleship and battleship duels happened in 1941-1944 they were mostly used as escorting carrier groups or shelling shores
+demoskunk she would have most definitely joined the Nagato at the bottom of Bikini for sure. The size of this ship would have made it an excellent test subject for Able and Baker. Especially the way this ship was designed.
The size and design of the is ship would have made her an excellent addition to the US Navy, especially considering how useful her spacious armored rear hangar would have been for deploying multiple helicopters, drones, and boats.
And yet they came back into service for every war the US entered, right into the 1990s.. And even after that, the marine corp fought to keep at least one Iowa-class battleship in service. I'd be curious to see a computer simulation of a single battleship coming into contact with a carrier at a range of 500 miles. The battleship's 32 tomahawk cruise missiles have a range of 1500 miles, and are capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. So you think the carrier would survive that engagement with a modernized battleship? lol
Probably the horror poor young American sailors felt one Sunday morning on the USS Arizona, as Japan started the war using a sneak attack. At least the Japanese crew knew they were in a war
Yamato indeed had no aerial cover at Okinawa. What you briefly see in the video is that as she steamed towards her destiny on the morning of 04/07/1945, she was overflown by several Japanese planes heading to Japan. There were no Japanese planes protecting her task force as all available airplanes were marshaled for kamikaze attacks on the US fleet.
Yamoto had the doubtful honor of being the biggest kamikaze ever, and the last battleship sunk. And just like the Hms Prince of Wales and Repulse were sunk. By Japanese Airplanes. There is some irony in that...
Not a fair fight. Most unfortunate for the Yamato crew, may they rest in peace. Shame on the commanders for forcing these brave men to fight such a futile battle.
+Tai Dang. In war, one doesn't care about "fair". Overwhelming force is the way. Wake Island wasn't a "fair" fight either. Shame on Japan for not putting an end to the war following Midway in June 1942. And most certainly after the Marianas campaign in June 1944.
Don’t give all blame to the military elite, Hirohito was up to his evil neck in what his Military did. It was not published after the War because Hirohito was needed in reining in his countrymen. Hirohito should have been publicly hung .
Only 10 US airplanes were shot down. IJN anti-aircraft Fire was wretched. Nearly 400 planes sent by USN....that more than the IJN planes sent to attack Pearl Harbor. If somehow the Yamato had made it past this aerial assault the USN had 6 modern Battleships, 7 cruisers and 21 Destroyers laying in wait
I find the comparison to Thermoplaye and the Alamo a stretch. It was futile and served absolutely no purpose. If Yamato attacked the Americans at Leyte only a few months earlier that would have been significant.This was a complete waste and I see no honor in this.
It was indeed a needless waste of life, which is why Adm. Ito initially refused to carry out the operation. Yoshida calls it perhaps one of the most criminally stupid missions in the annals of naval history. Also true. The heroism of her crew in undertaking such a mission knowingly and willingly speaks for itself, however.
I agree with that. But I also would point out that the crew really had no idea what they were getting themselves into. They knew that Okinawa would be their resting place, but I doubt they ever knew the odds they were up against. They knew it was a one way mission, but had no idea of the air, logistical and ship superiority that the US held. They had been held back as something of a "prize ship" like the Tirpitz for years. The best trained crew sitting in harbor, listening to propaganda, getting the best of everything in the Imperial Navy, never knowing how bad the situation really was. But, unlike the German ship, they had been sent on a final mission, still under the illusion that their sacrifice could bring the conflict to a mutual ceasefire with benefits to the Japanese. Hind site is 20/20. If this was the case, the ship could have suffered a less devastating fate at the docks of Kure. It would have been far less dramatic, but more lives could have been saved. It was their duty to their country to do what they did, but, like you said, they were orders perverted by the fog of war and commanders believing in propaganda over doctrine. A tragic end to the ship and her crew for no gain. It is indeed sad that both county's younger generations are starting to forget the tragedy and plight of these people that brought us to the place we are today. Young Americans don't know why they are in Japan and young Japanese wonder why they have American military in their country. From the ashes of war, one of the closest alliances in history was born, now it is in jeopardy because younger people don't know their history.
The last Yamato class battleship was hastily converted to a carrier, the Shinao. The Americans cancelled their planned Montana class battleships in favor of more Essex class carriers. Shinao was sunk by a US submarine before it was fully completed. Yamato marked the end of the battleship era. The awesome peak of a technology that had become obsolete. Battleships can at most hit targets out to about 30 km range, while a carrier can strike targets over 500 km away. You control 400x as much ocean with a carrier. Sadly, even if Yamato had survived the war, it would certainly have been scuttled by the US afterwards.
+Richard Reinert Not even close. The ability to strike your enemy en masse from hundreds of miles away is simply unbeatable. The Yamato was the best ship in a class of ships that was irrelevant from her conception. Its a sad story. Like making the best katana ever made when everyone around you is handling semi automatic rifles.
Im not sure which deck color of Yamato is more accurate because most images, models and games show it having a beige deck color but in some like this the deck is dark brown or just brown
According to Mitsuru Yoshida (who survived the mission), Yamato's decks were painted "jet black" for the final mission. However, "painted" is not exactly an accurate description of what most likely happened. Informed historical sources have told me that the decks were actually rubbed with black soot, which would have certainly rendered them dark from above.
I do not believe Corsairs were anywhere near the Yamato, I will have to check. In checking, I found that two waves of carrier based aircraft were involved. The first wave consisted of 280 planes, fighters, torpedo planes and dive bombers, the second wave of 100 planes. None of which were Corsairs as the Navy at that time refused to employ them on Carriers due to the difficulty of landing them, it took the Brits to show the Navy how it was done, long after Yamato was destroyed. Corsairs were primarily land based aircraft that the Marines used very effectively. I WAS Wrong. Corsairs were in fact used in the destruction of the Yamato. Approx 400 planes were used.
There were. In "A Glorious Way to Die", Spurr recounts that there were some Marine Corsairs that participated in the raid on Yamato ... basically the USN threw everything it had at the Yamato Task Force ... they mostly carried rockets, I believe, as they were intended for ground support ...
A waste of young lives, steel, and treasure. How many great thoughts for the future of humanity burned to death or were drowned in this one engagement? There is no glory in war. Humans fail to remember that fact alone.
@@metaknight115 most powerful does not mean she could hit anything with them. Her armor did nothing except make her slow and eat more torpedoes and bombs.
Japan was on the defensive run after the loss of Leyte Gulf their navy was basically ruined and there wasn't enough minerals or fuel or resources to keep the war going. Here's a fun fact. during the planning of the Ten Go mission, Yamato was only 2 battleships decided for the mission. The others were Haruna and Nagato. Yamato was the best pick because she was heavily armed, she was fast, and she was suitable and in good condition at the time while Nagato was heavily armed but was slow and in poor condition and Haruna was very fast but wasn't armed enough. Plus Yamato was a symbol of Japan's maritime force and thought her ultimate sacrifice was the last option to save the Japanese Empire from American invasion. I hope this helps with your question. 🙂
Several IJN Admirals fought hard to prevent this suicide mission but they were overruled by superiors who felt the death of thousands of brave men was preferable that doing nothing. USN lost 15 dead in their destruction of the doomed IJN squadron
@@D.AKULA_TK208 The Iowas and South Dakotas we’re far away escorting carriers. She would have more likely faced 6 older ww1 era battleships, and several cruisers and destroyers
@@metaknight115even then the ww1 bbs would finish her off if she survived the air attacks. And there could’ve been several modern bbs escorting the carriers also.
I am wondering if it's possible to salvage the yamato. my personal opinion, Yamato should be preserved, not to celebrate what Japan did in WW2, but for she was indeed an amazing achievement of mankind.
Here's a link to a diorama of the wreck. Not gonna happen. 2.bp.blogspot.com/-25facAnvoSw/WAB9Y7evS-I/AAAAAAAADjY/LjnB5VVCulceXaQujRbMGSzCmD5m9_-1QCEw/s1600/Yamato%2BDiorama.jpg
Christopher Drummond the Yamato had Radar. It was located on the mast and on the range finder. In fact the mesh grills on the range finder are the radar “dishes”.
@@mattheuston9363 indeed it was the only japanese ship with these type of radar but it was completely inferior to the usn radar based on the magnetron that gave it the ability to blindfire wich proved very efective against kirishima and yamashiro it could also maintain lock while manouvering unlike the japanese radar it also had lower range. Japanese radar technology was poor inferior to the german and not comparable to the british and American one
+Joey Palochak . Japan initiated the disasters going on over there. Surrender was not in their code, therefore they had to be defeated by shear weight and force of arms.
HI from Poland nice ship best ship ever ... sad destroy for free and die for free crew ... but some know what is heroic fight and start fight if know lost and die ... we in Poland same never surrender ...
It is awfull to see such an ignorance of history and lack of humanity. Remembering a military event could be of some honour, but as long as Japan will not beg pardon for all the misbeheaviour of their country against civil population in China, Corea Philippines, and all conquered countries, i think celebrating such event as that is unappropriate. Nankin massacres made more casualties than each nuke over Japan.
you mean : spelling ? Mais si tu veux pauvre abruti, ma langue à moi c'est le français, alors si tu me parles en français, peut-être que je ne me tromperai pas. Mr. perfect, you are the best !
shame that they kept the best weapon in the dock and even decide to blew it up, who knew what the result of ww2 will be if they decide to use Yamato and her sister in every battle and not lost 1 god damn fighter 0 to US lol. the BBs itself wasn't designed to fight planes at all, another disappointment that we didn't get to see her in action.
The US already had experience fighting A6Ms, and even without the captured A6M, the US had already developed counter-tactics such as Thach's beam defense and the need to keep speed up (the A6M, while it had a high top speed on paper, was not maneuverable at high speeds).
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The sinking of Musashi at Leyte Gulf is where the USN figured out they needed to torpedo just one side of the ship. Yamato's sister ship took longer to sink because the hits on both sides acted as counter flooding, keeping her from rolling over sooner.
What happened with the Yamato was its rolling caused the other side to no longer be protected by the main belt armor meaning they could deliver the death blow to its soft underbelly.
This also happened to Yamato but it sank by rolling over cause most torpedos hit there
This was Japan's Pearl Harbour, but concentrated on one ship. I learnt that prior to sinking the Japanese shot down only 3 plane, but Yamato's massive explosion swatted seven planes out if the sky like flies.
Nope
Truk Harbor was
For anyone interested in the Japanese perspective, I recommend the book: Japanese Destroyer Captain by Tameichi Hara. He captained the CL Yahagi in this battle. I read this book back in 1969 and found it fascinating.
Excellent book.....is on audio‼️®™
First of all thank's for sharing this movie. I must say that it remains a sad but glorious end for this mighty battleship and her crew. Hail to Yamato and all these men who have die on her.
I can't understand single word, but it seems to be extremally accurate. Glad to see destroyers beeing present in the battle all the time and the cruiser Yahagi as well. Really great job, since smaller warships are commonly forgotten and not shown in most ducumentaries and simulations.
To all of you folks in the comment section. This was in 1945, not in 1944, with less space to manouver and hide, than near Phillipines. Every step taken by Japanese Navy was noticed by both USN and USAF, so they knew what was going to happen from the very beginning. Even with air cover and with more vessels in the battle group, this mission couldn't have succeeded. The IJN fighters would have been swept away from the sky by USN fighter cover (which was present for the entire action - just in case). Strike aircraft would have destroyed only more ships, but in one or two waves more. The entire idea of sending surface ships to intercept invasion fleet in such environment was a complete non-sence. Just compare the losses. With such density of AA guns on IJN ships American Navy lost only 12 planes while having hundreds of them ready to engage. Just a futile waste of men and materials.
この大和撃沈を巡っては後に米海軍内でひと悶着あった。
当初米軍の第5艦隊司令官のスプルーアンス大将は大和を戦艦との砲撃戦で沈めるつもりで、第54任務部隊（指揮官デイヨー少将）の戦艦6隻を用意し、待機を命じていた。大和他第2艦隊を発見次第第54任務部隊は出動の上、砲撃戦で仕留める腹づもりだった。
しかしながら、この映像の通り大和を沈めたのは、先に発見した第58任務部隊（指揮官ミッチャー中将）の空母艦載機だった。あとでこれを知ったデイヨー少将は激高してスプルーアンス大将の元に怒鳴り込み、ミッチャー中将をなじったうえで命令違反の咎で軍法会議にかけるよう要求した。（あくまでも第58任務部隊は当初予定されていた艦隊の空からの脅威に対する上空支援にとどまるべきだったとして）
しかしながら元々ミッチャー中将の第58任務部隊には戦術上のフリーハンドを与えていたことや、直前にミッチャー中将がに攻撃の許可を求めて了承したという経緯もあり、スプルーアンス大将はデイヨー少将の要求を退けた。
Any chance you (or anybody) could subtitle this? I'm very interested, but I'd love to be able to understand it.
Yeah me too
The way your motto probably blew up is by her magazines blowing up
Aye, Suzutsuki was a badass. Sailed backed to port backwards.
But that would just be 6-9 knots, how did they get there fast with only slow speed?
1:34 almost brought me to tears: "Destroyer Fuyuzuki came around and shielded Yamato"
This Destroyer wouldnt draw any major ordnance. Its a low priority target...
@@derbaser9445 you’re crazy. 1bb 1ca and 8dds were jumped by 400 planes. Six never made it. It was a slaughter.
@@NoJokes11B hmmm well maybe your right
Seeing Yamato blew up was sad
@@derbaser9445 But to get to their target, they must destroy the blocking destroyer first, so Yeah i don’t think she will be ignored…
Agreed Mr. Anderson... truly a waste of life for both sides. And a incredible designed vessel.
Samuel, the Japanese at the time did not in any way consider dying in the service of the Emperor a wasted life. Remember, they decided to start the war. The US decided to finish it
It was thus, also for all but 65 of the ship's company of HMS Jervis Bay, 5th November 1940, and their valiant commander, Captain Edward Steven Fogarty Fegen RN, who was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously for outstanding leadership and courage in the face of certain death.
The thing about having a warship as heavily armoured as this, is the fact that you literally have to pulverise it to sink it,just look at Musashi which they,ve just found,same thing,absolutely mangled.This fact gave the crew little chance of surviving such a vicious bombardment.
Awesome series :3
I love it.
Corsair and Hellcat strafing attacks killed many of the anti aircraft gun crews who were in mostly slightly defended positions
are Anti aircraft guns not accurate ?
@@ghostdiaries369 Japanese short-ranged anti-aircraft guns were notoriously inadequate for their role. They had bad accuracy due to being only manually aimed, turned too slowly and had small magazines. The Japanese tried to put as much of these guns as possible on their warships as they can but it didn't really help much since short-range AA are essentially just "revenge" weapons since at the range they would start to become effective, the aircraft they're trying to hit would already have dropped a bomb or torpedo and would already have begun to fly away.
@@klade5031 thx man fr info . But i got a doubt . why didnt they upgraded their AA guns , when it was becoming ineffective . ;??
@@ghostdiaries369 They had only enough manpower and resources to either build more of what they had already OR to try to develop a new AA gun (or any significant new weapon, really) not both since Japan was still locked in a rather large war with China when it decided to attack the US. Japan did manage to capture a few samples of the famed 40mm Bofors guns (an excellent medium ranged AA used by both the US and UK) but it is unknown if they had plans to actually mass produce the design. Anyways, the lackluster AA guns were only part of the problem of the Japanese navy. They also lacked the other things that made the American AA so effective like centralized fire control, proximity fuze shells and tactics (US ships typically focused AA fire on an air defense sector while on Japanese ships it was every ship for herself).
@@klade5031 but even if this all upgrades was implemented, i dont think Yamato would survive. Lack of trained crew would be the remaining problem
After seeing the Yamato and Bismarck and the Tirpitz history, one factor is proven and unspoken. these countries only used those giant ships as either a last resort or en easy mission weapon. They spent too much time prizing Tirpitz in that fiord in Norway, and that dumb admiral not firing back at the hood on bismark till the captain overstepped him and took over, is more than enough proof this factor made Yamato suffer the same fate.
Miguel Rivera battleships during theater wars were almost literally pointless the ships were most effective in the idea of moral support, as in Oh look at the huge battleship our country made! We're the best! in doing that it gave the soldiers of said country (Germany and Japan for real life) the idea that their country was in fact the best, and gave them hope for winning the war and extreme levels of encouragement.
@@jacobrcoll right plus battleships were very expensive to being build and maintained cause they carry so much fuel and ammunition could have bankrupt any nation whoever planned to construct them as WW2 approached AirPower dominated the battleship no matter how big or powerful you build a battleship it will always fall victim to airpower battleships were mostly useless during WW2 only a few battleship and battleship duels happened in 1941-1944 they were mostly used as escorting carrier groups or shelling shores
Beautiful ship built for a terrible reason and during the era of the aircraft carrier. A death sentence for any sailor
I wish Yamato would've survived the war. It would be awesome to walk the decks of this beautiful ship.
+demoskunk she would have most definitely joined the Nagato at the bottom of Bikini for sure. The size of this ship would have made it an excellent test subject for Able and Baker. Especially the way this ship was designed.
The size and design of the is ship would have made her an excellent addition to the US Navy, especially considering how useful her spacious armored rear hangar would have been for deploying multiple helicopters, drones, and boats.
i don't think you understand just how worthless BBs were at the end of WW 2, they really didn't serve any purpose other than as floating cannonfooder.
And yet they came back into service for every war the US entered, right into the 1990s.. And even after that, the marine corp fought to keep at least one Iowa-class battleship in service.
I'd be curious to see a computer simulation of a single battleship coming into contact with a carrier at a range of 500 miles. The battleship's 32 tomahawk cruise missiles have a range of 1500 miles, and are capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. So you think the carrier would survive that engagement with a modernized battleship? lol
demoskunk During the final years of WWII, Battleships doesn't even matter anymore. It's all about air power.
Can't imagine the horror the poor Japanese sailors went through, on Yamato.
Probably the horror poor young American sailors felt one Sunday morning on the USS Arizona, as Japan started the war using a sneak attack. At least the Japanese crew knew they were in a war
they suffered big time
大和の強靭性は米国のアイオワ級戦艦を遥かに凌ぐ。まさに世界最強だな。
1:35 冬月が大和の盾になるところがすごくかっこいい！！
The oil slick on the water was a good touch.
やっぱり戦争は勝って終わらないと意味が無い。どんなに劣勢でも負けを認めるのは誰にとっても難しいだろうな。
戦後70年以上経っても未だにかつての誇りを取り戻せていないのだから……
戦争を肯定するつもりはありませんが、大和を含め、日本や、家族を守るため、戦い死んでいった、日本兵士の方の冥福を祈ります。
また、第二次世界大戦で犠牲に成った、世界中全ての片に、追悼の意を表します。
大和、日本のために戦ってくれてありがとうそして艦長以下総員3332名安らかにお眠りください
沈没した19４５年4月７日は忘れません。
3332名ではなくなくなった数は2740名なのでは？
I did not ever hear of the Yamato having air cover during it's suicide mission. If this is accurate I learned something new.
Yamato indeed had no aerial cover at Okinawa. What you briefly see in the video is that as she steamed towards her destiny on the morning of 04/07/1945, she was overflown by several Japanese planes heading to Japan. There were no Japanese planes protecting her task force as all available airplanes were marshaled for kamikaze attacks on the US fleet.
Yamoto had the doubtful honor of being the biggest kamikaze ever, and the last battleship sunk. And just like the Hms Prince of Wales and Repulse were sunk. By Japanese Airplanes. There is some irony in that...
Yamato
It was a slaughter of brave men & stout ships
@Marv Gardens I was angry at the IJN Admirals who sacrificed thousands just they would not lose Face to the Imperial Army
Would have been better had they posted subtitles so we could understand
ever hear about that japanese Kamikaze Commando airborne raid? Okinawa 1945
Not a fair fight. Most unfortunate for the Yamato crew, may they rest in peace. Shame on the commanders for forcing these brave men to fight such a futile battle.
+Tai Dang. In war, one doesn't care about "fair". Overwhelming force is the way. Wake Island wasn't a "fair" fight either. Shame on Japan for not putting an end to the war following Midway in June 1942. And most certainly after the Marianas campaign in June 1944.
+88mike It wasn't exactly overwhelming force. More of a "rock paper scissors" type deal. They had not the slightest of hope...
yamto she was made to kill untill we destroyed it bye yamto
Don’t give all blame to the military elite, Hirohito was up to his evil neck in what his Military did. It was not published after the War because Hirohito was needed in reining in his countrymen. Hirohito should have been publicly hung .
Pearl Harbor wasn't either.
大和の命中された爆弾と魚雷の数は日米で大きく食い違っている。また、総員退去も14:20と公式にはなっているが、その前に出ていたという話もある。
Only 10 US airplanes were shot down. IJN anti-aircraft Fire was wretched. Nearly 400 planes sent by USN....that more than the IJN planes sent to attack Pearl Harbor. If somehow the Yamato had made it past this aerial assault the USN had 6 modern Battleships, 7 cruisers and 21 Destroyers laying in wait
Only 3 were downed by AA fire, the other 7 went down after Yamato's magazine exploded.
@@ReinbouDash yup….many were saved by flying boats….not sure subs rescued any or not.
I think it was 6 old battleships. The Iowas were far away escorting carriers
@@metaknight115 No, they all modern battleships fully updated. Both of the Alaska class heavy cruisers were part of the Task Force.
@@alexius23 Fair enough
I find the comparison to Thermoplaye and the Alamo a stretch. It was futile and served absolutely no purpose. If Yamato attacked the Americans at Leyte only a few months earlier that would have been significant.This was a complete waste and I see no honor in this.
It was indeed a needless waste of life, which is why Adm. Ito initially refused to carry out the operation. Yoshida calls it perhaps one of the most criminally stupid missions in the annals of naval history. Also true.
The heroism of her crew in undertaking such a mission knowingly and willingly speaks for itself, however.
I agree with that. But I also would point out that the crew really had no idea what they were getting themselves into. They knew that Okinawa would be their resting place, but I doubt they ever knew the odds they were up against. They knew it was a one way mission, but had no idea of the air, logistical and ship superiority that the US held. They had been held back as something of a "prize ship" like the Tirpitz for years. The best trained crew sitting in harbor, listening to propaganda, getting the best of everything in the Imperial Navy, never knowing how bad the situation really was. But, unlike the German ship, they had been sent on a final mission, still under the illusion that their sacrifice could bring the conflict to a mutual ceasefire with benefits to the Japanese.
Hind site is 20/20. If this was the case, the ship could have suffered a less devastating fate at the docks of Kure. It would have been far less dramatic, but more lives could have been saved. It was their duty to their country to do what they did, but, like you said, they were orders perverted by the fog of war and commanders believing in propaganda over doctrine.
A tragic end to the ship and her crew for no gain. It is indeed sad that both county's younger generations are starting to forget the tragedy and plight of these people that brought us to the place we are today. Young Americans don't know why they are in Japan and young Japanese wonder why they have American military in their country. From the ashes of war, one of the closest alliances in history was born, now it is in jeopardy because younger people don't know their history.
この戦争で亡くなられた日本、アメリカの多くの若き命に心から哀悼の意を表します。
fue una mision suicida, descansen en paz, marinos valientes.🙏🙏🙏
Si
So after losing yamato they've learned and never continued super yamato am I right?
yepp
They Canceled “Super Yamato” very early in the war. Sometime in 1942.
@@williampaz2092 🤔🤔
What os the super yamato
@@Random_dude_ANIMATES its like the yamato class deaign but instead equipped with twin 520mm guns
The last Yamato class battleship was hastily converted to a carrier, the Shinao. The Americans cancelled their planned Montana class battleships in favor of more Essex class carriers. Shinao was sunk by a US submarine before it was fully completed. Yamato marked the end of the battleship era. The awesome peak of a technology that had become obsolete.
Battleships can at most hit targets out to about 30 km range, while a carrier can strike targets over 500 km away. You control 400x as much ocean with a carrier. Sadly, even if Yamato had survived the war, it would certainly have been scuttled by the US afterwards.
or could ve used it in nuclear testing sites
Or they could tow it and scrap the ship
Shinano which was sunk by the USS Archerfish
The USS Archerfish
Shinano wasn’t even a fleet carrier. She was a maintenance carrier. 50,000+ tons wasted
This is sinking simulation?
Today is the anniversary of this mission and the sinking of the Yamato.
This looks like a very educational film. Any chance you could dub over in English and subtitles as well????
Ships get hit, they sink.
Any arguments about the comparative deadliness of Aircraft Carriers and Battleships?
+Richard Reinert Not even close. The ability to strike your enemy en masse from hundreds of miles away is simply unbeatable. The Yamato was the best ship in a class of ships that was irrelevant from her conception. Its a sad story. Like making the best katana ever made when everyone around you is handling semi automatic rifles.
日本人として誇りに思います!!
🇧🇷🤝🎌
Thank you it was very nice!
Zero fighters had shoot down F4u Corsair fighters
Im not sure which deck color of Yamato is more accurate because most images, models and games show it having a beige deck color but in some like this the deck is dark brown or just brown
According to Mitsuru Yoshida (who survived the mission), Yamato's decks were painted "jet black" for the final mission. However, "painted" is not exactly an accurate description of what most likely happened. Informed historical sources have told me that the decks were actually rubbed with black soot, which would have certainly rendered them dark from above.
@@yamato_tenichigo alright, since i'm making a Yamato model and trying to make it accurate.
I do not believe Corsairs were anywhere near the Yamato, I will have to check. In checking, I found that two waves of carrier based aircraft were involved. The first wave consisted of 280 planes, fighters, torpedo planes and dive bombers, the second wave of 100 planes. None of which were Corsairs as the Navy at that time refused to employ them on Carriers due to the difficulty of landing them, it took the Brits to show the Navy how it was done, long after Yamato was destroyed. Corsairs were primarily land based aircraft that the Marines used very effectively.
I WAS Wrong. Corsairs were in fact used in the destruction of the Yamato. Approx 400 planes were used.
There were. In "A Glorious Way to Die", Spurr recounts that there were some Marine Corsairs that participated in the raid on Yamato ... basically the USN threw everything it had at the Yamato Task Force ... they mostly carried rockets, I believe, as they were intended for ground support ...
there defintately the Curtiss SB2C Helldivers
Where in the world did you find that drivel about the Corsair and the US Carriers? About showing them how it was done? Talk about Limey idiocy.
Rip Yamato
A waste of young lives, steel, and treasure. How many great thoughts for the future of humanity burned to death or were drowned in this one engagement? There is no glory in war. Humans fail to remember that fact alone.
ဂ်ပန္ေတြ အရမ္းမိုက္ရိုင္းတာ ေသတာေကာင္းတယ္
No worries...it will rise again in 2199, rebuild as THE Space BattleShip, on a mission to save the Earth
Ya win some
Ya lose some
good
-bye.
Yamato is most strong battleship ever buld
False
@@sayhallo3769 It’s true. She had the best armor, and arguably most powerful guns ever mounted on a warship
@@metaknight115 most powerful does not mean she could hit anything with them. Her armor did nothing except make her slow and eat more torpedoes and bombs.
@@metaknight115 her aiming system was sub par optical guiding of the guns while the Iowa were computer guided
大艦巨砲主義の終わりか。
悲しいものだ
I feel bad , watch my favorite ship been sinking is sad
There should be German Anti-Aircraft Guns Technology in that IJN Flagship Kamikaze Mission.
No
Yamato is my Favotive Battleshup
what's a Battleshup?
I heard that the mission of the Great Yamato was a suicide mission, idk why they did that.
Japan got desperate, such a sad fate.
Japan was on the defensive run after the loss of Leyte Gulf their navy was basically ruined and there wasn't enough minerals or fuel or resources to keep the war going. Here's a fun fact. during the planning of the Ten Go mission, Yamato was only 2 battleships decided for the mission. The others were Haruna and Nagato. Yamato was the best pick because she was heavily armed, she was fast, and she was suitable and in good condition at the time while Nagato was heavily armed but was slow and in poor condition and Haruna was very fast but wasn't armed enough. Plus Yamato was a symbol of Japan's maritime force and thought her ultimate sacrifice was the last option to save the Japanese Empire from American invasion. I hope this helps with your question. 🙂
Ten-Ichi-Go Heaven One
The military should not allow themselves to carry out suicide missions
Bushido brainwashing.
Several IJN Admirals fought hard to prevent this suicide mission but they were overruled by superiors who felt the death of thousands of brave men was preferable that doing nothing. USN lost 15 dead in their destruction of the doomed IJN squadron
Battleships are liability and never efficient.
I think musashi is strong enough to beat yamato
why in hell would Musashi attack her own sister?
Fuck no, the Musashi was rushed, in-fact the Musashi would sink because she was rushed, meaning less quality.
So if Yamato won this... they wont stop producing battleships? (In my opinion only) but yes they also have limits
If the US Aircrafts didnt have sunk the Yamato the Iowas and South Dakotas were going to finish it.
@@D.AKULA_TK208 The Iowas and South Dakotas we’re far away escorting carriers. She would have more likely faced 6 older ww1 era battleships, and several cruisers and destroyers
@@metaknight115even then the ww1 bbs would finish her off if she survived the air attacks. And there could’ve been several modern bbs escorting the carriers also.
Yuudachi Poi was sunk?
Long ago at Guadalcanal.
@@mitsukinase8365 u seem to be otaku
RIP Yamato
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December 16th, 1941-April 7th, 1945
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Fighter aircraft want revage of sinking of battleship Yamato
there were no fighter aircraft, she had no fighter escort
I am wondering if it's possible to salvage the yamato. my personal opinion, Yamato should be preserved, not to celebrate what Japan did in WW2, but for she was indeed an amazing achievement of mankind.
Here's a link to a diorama of the wreck. Not gonna happen.
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Not possible.
no she was torn in half by a violent magazine explosion that was seen 99 miles away on Kyushu
second-rate Battleship going down any of the Iowa class would have destroyed it in a heartbeat we had radar they didn't.
Christopher Drummond the Yamato had Radar. It was located on the mast and on the range finder. In fact the mesh grills on the range finder are the radar “dishes”.
@@mattheuston9363 indeed it was the only japanese ship with these type of radar but it was completely inferior to the usn radar based on the magnetron that gave it the ability to blindfire wich proved very efective against kirishima and yamashiro it could also maintain lock while manouvering unlike the japanese radar it also had lower range. Japanese radar technology was poor inferior to the german and not comparable to the british and American one
Karl Dönitz at least you know more than the other dude I just talked to who is trying to tell me the Yamato was a battlecruiser
@@mattheuston9363 Yes i agree he sound like an american with a superiority complex
Karl Dönitz as a american, I hate my fellow Americans who do that.
i love this video but i fell bad for japan with the disasters going on over there
+Joey Palochak . Japan initiated the disasters going on over there. Surrender was not in their code, therefore they had to be defeated by shear weight and force of arms.
thanks for the comment back
悲しいです。
Domo Arigato
やはり日本が、戦前通告の打診を誤ったのは、痛いですね、アメリカにとっては、理不尽な不意討ちですからね、
크고 아름다운 거함거포주의의 야마토
なに言ってるかわかんねえよバカコリア
@@大日本帝国-j4v 汚ならしい言葉は使わない方が良いですよ
大日本帝国 翻訳→大きな美しい大艦巨砲主義の大和。です
왜 지들 침몰함 그래픽으로
만들었을까???
"잊지말자!"
뭐 이런건가????
너네들 마음속엔
야마또 하나 더 있잖아
우주 전함 야마토
(우주 쌩깡 야마토)
너네는 헌법을 바꾸면
야마토같은거 엄청 만들어 댈거야!!
HI from Poland nice ship best ship ever ... sad destroy for free and die for free crew ... but some know what is heroic fight and start fight if know lost and die ... we in Poland same never surrender ...
this chain of videos and the description of this one in particular made me quite sad
It is awfull to see such an ignorance of history and lack of humanity.
Remembering a military event could be of some honour, but as long as Japan will not beg pardon for all the misbeheaviour of their country against civil population in China, Corea Philippines, and all conquered countries, i think celebrating such event as that is unappropriate. Nankin massacres made more casualties than each nuke over Japan.
Learn your facts and speling.
you mean : spelling ?
Mais si tu veux pauvre abruti, ma langue à moi c'est le français, alors si tu me parles en français, peut-être que je ne me tromperai pas. Mr. perfect, you are the best !
don't worry yamato will come back to life as UCHUU SENKAN YAMATO!!!!!
고목정웅과 그의 딸이 보면 몹시 슬퍼할 내용 입니다
なに言ってるかわかんねえよバカコリア
大日本帝国 バカはおめーだ
これが艦娘だと思うと泣けてくる、、、
になにねsecond きっしょ…
こんな大和型はいやだ
転覆しても主砲撃ったら戻ってくる
やめて石投げないで
ひさびさのクソ動画ｗ
shame that they kept the best weapon in the dock and even decide to blew it up, who knew what the result of ww2 will be if they decide to use Yamato and her sister in every battle and not lost 1 god damn fighter 0 to US lol.
the BBs itself wasn't designed to fight planes at all, another disappointment that we didn't get to see her in action.
The US already had experience fighting A6Ms, and even without the captured A6M, the US had already developed counter-tactics such as Thach's beam defense and the need to keep speed up (the A6M, while it had a high top speed on paper, was not maneuverable at high speeds).
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deal with it=))
They should capture the Yamato for the US Navy instead of sinking her.
...easier said than done-!!
@@daleburrell6273 she's in three pieces
@@robertyoung3992 ...those are the breaks(?)
(get it? get it? snucker-snucker-snucker!!)
@@robertyoung3992 ...how about THIS one: the Yamato isn't all that it's cracked up to be(?)
and we had the Iowa Class Battleships