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"The resulting mushroom cloud is seen from mainland Japan." That honestly is a erie line considering what happened at the end of the war. It just foreshadows what's going to happen.
Eerie indeed… it was basically Yamamoto’s “sleeping giant” quote. If they had a war against the US, a timer would run to the point where they were effectively done for. That timer ran out here because, as mentioned, “it was the last major naval operation of Japan before the end of the war.” They couldn’t count on their powerful navy because the war had essentially cost them their entire navy. History has a weird way of working things.
I recommend the 2005 movie "Otokotachi no Yamato" (men of the yamato) for those interested in seeing more of the super battleship. It isn't exactly centered around Yamato herself however, rather, the men who served aboard her, from the Battle of Leyte Gulf, all the way to the end during operation Ten-Go; a 1/3 replica of Yamato (from what i remember) was even built for the film! A warning for those faint of heart, there are some graphic scenes (think of saving private ryan), if you don't like that, then I discourage that you watch it for your own sake.
One of the best scenes for me is (spoiler) When the fisherman agrees to take the girl to where the Yamato sank, he sees the ship itself before his eyes, at this moment onion-cutting ninjas entered my room!
Not that it's a competition, but Oversimplified is also excellent. Way less detailed animations, hence the name, but fantastically presented history documentaries that are both informative, easily digestible, and often hilarious.
That magazine explosion was so powerful it knocked out several of the attacking American planes out of the sky. Ironically its explosions were more effective in destroying US aircraft than its entire armament.
“At 13:33, in a desperate attempt to keep the ship from capsizing, Yamato's damage control team counter-flooded both starboard engine and boiler rooms. This mitigated the danger but also drowned the several hundred crewmen manning those stations, who were given no notice that their compartments were about to fill with water.” Just a little tidbit I found while reading up on this.
I feel sorry for those sailors and officers aboard those ships during that last operation of the Yamato. It wasn't even a kamikaze run. It was just sending them to die in the most pointless manner possible since it was a flat out fact that their force stood no chance at doing even the tiniest bit of significant damage to the Allied navy that was steaming ever closer toward mainland Japan by then.
@@GetDougDimmadomed Oh I know. Don't misunderstand me. I'm not trying to criticize or belittle them or their honor and courage as soldiers. It's the moronic high command that sent them on the mission (again, pointlessly) and let them all get blown to bits and almost all die knowing full well that there was literally zero chance they could have accomplished ANYTHING significant.
There are stories that despite orders to only give Yamato enough fuel to get to Okinawa, the yard workers gave her every ounce of fuel they could spare so were to survive, she could make it home
@@Hello-tl4rm in face emperor irohito he has not thing to do with it but Tojo oh boy surely he did alot and he is the one start the war not the emperor
6:07 Note the empty anti-aircraft guns in front of the main batteries. Because the Japanese had the ingenious idea of using their main guns as AAA, nearby anti-aircraft guns could not be crewed. Though I doubt it would've changed the outcome by even a margin, Japanese 25mm guns were horrible during WW2.
Well the Japanese aren't known for having the greatest AA systems after all. You know how shitty they are when the number of U.S planes got taken down by the Yamato's explosion is even higher than the number of U.S aircraft got shot down by the AA.
Japanese AA was fine, it was good before the war and only got obsolete later on, AA wasn't actually meant to shot down planes but just to mitigate what damage they could have done without them, and considering the fact that the Yamato survived the first wave with superficial damage, I'd say they did their job just fine.
An American veteran of that attack later admitted that it scarred him for life. He felt horrible for bombing a vessel full of kids. A Japanese survivor stated that he was told that to prevent flooding, they had to seal hatches closed. There were men down there looking up at him when he closed them, and it meant certain death for them. He said after that "War can be so brutal". Seeing it from both sides makes it even more tragic when you think about us.
The first duty is to the ship, which can necessitate sealing people in flooding compartments, but ultimately allow the ship and everyone else to survive.
@@CodingK1d Anyone who has an interest in actual history! It doesn’t look believable when you make the Japanese sailors look like Caucasian people. Imagine this same film maker made a film about the German equivalent battleship the Bismarck, and all of the German sailors look JAPANESE! Wouldn’t that seem really strange! Ridiculous! Apparently they were terrified they’d be attacked and accused of making them look stereotyped or whatever but that’s ridiculous. Asian people look Asian and Caucasian people look Caucasian. I lived in Japan for years. I know very well what Japanese people look like and none of the Japanese sailors in this animated film even look remotely Japanese.
My Great Uncle served on the IJN Musashi (sister ship of the Yamato) when it was bombed. He survived the war with his left lung gone and one of his arms blown off. He later went to found a text book supply company for public schools. He donated money to his hometown library every year. He also became an instructor of pottery. I never met him when I could remember, but my mother told me that when he held me ad a baby, I smiled at him and he smiled back. He passed away in his sleep around 10 years ago.
Until Pearl Harbour, all navies believed that naval battles were to be fought by battleships with carriers acting as supporting vessels. Once the Americans realised the true power of carriers, they began churning them out like sausages in their shipyards.
@@bemusedpanda8875 the Japanese realized the power of the carrier before the us did just look at pearl harber it was a massive hit to the us navy but the main Japanese target was the carriers battleships were far below carriers of the target list However no carriers were in port but if they had waited a day uss enterprise would have been in port
3:08 You will notice that the Catalina is flying, yet its engines are not running. This is not a mistake. Like any red-blooded American plane, it is flying through sheer determination, willpower, and patriotism.
fun fact: the IJN Yukikaze, one of the escort destroyer in this operation, participated in all major operation and survived the war she was partially sunk by a natural disaster and chinese governement destroyer her (sad) she was called "the miracle ship" or "the unsinkable ship"
I think that Yamato is symbolic of biting off more than you can chew. More aircraft were sent to kill Yamato than Japan sent to attack Pearl Harbor. That’s how outclassed they were in production.
She really was a waste of time and resources. All she truly accomplished was wounding a few Tin Cans before those same vessels scared her off with a spread of torpedoes.
Plus it was beat by the Johnston and the rest of taffy 3 just a few weeks prior during the last stand of the tin cans The taffy 3 were a fletcher class transport escorts.
I really love how you guys focused on the crew of the Yamato. Everything I've seen before is how it was a great victory for the US Navy towards the end of the war. Thank you for telling the other half of the story and showing the Japanese sailors side.
There are clips on RUclips about this action, taken from a movie. Its in Japanese, but the action part is quite understandable. Be advised, it can be gory...
all i'd heard growing up made Yamato out to be this epic final boss for the us navy to beat. Now as an adult it was a mighty ship that never got the chance to do what it was good out and both it and it's loyal crew were sent to die on a pointless suicide mission that didn't even delay the inevitable. How much better it would've been for Yamato and her crew to live to see the new Japan post-war
If those timestamps are a scary thought to you then don't read up on the HMHS Britannic which only loss of life was related to ahem.. BTW you may also now have submechanophobia which is exactly that fear.
She technically never did truly. The ship spent most of its career in port because she needed so much fuel to run that Japan couldn't afford to fuel it. Her first battle would've been Midway, but the carriers were sunk before she arrived and they ordered her back to Japan. The only combat she ever saw against surface ships was in Leyte Gulf when she engaged Taffy 3 as part of Center Force. She ended up taking enough damage that she had to divert and leave the battle.
it sort of never did. There is a piece of yamato armor pierced by a US gun "after it was defeated and shot at point blank range" otherwise they couldn't go through on an naval to naval combat. On one hand i can only congratulate the Us for using carriers to sink the yamato, on the other hand exposing a piece of armor they pierced post battle is pathetic.
@@ShawneeLad117 Not quite. Yamato didn't take real damage during the surface action at Leyte Gulf. The Japanese withdrawal was due to the rather spectacular failure of Admiral Kurita to arrange his screening destroyers properly and press the advantage when he had it. Yamato did sink a US escort carrier with its guns, one of the longest naval gunfire hits in history.
@@Cailus3542 Kurita was right to retreat in the grand scheme of things. Yes, he actually could have wiped out Taffy 3, but this ignores that the air attacks were coming from Taffy 1 and 2 as well (and with actual aerial torpedoes to boot), and that the rest of Seventh Fleet was moving north to intercept. On top off that, even if Kurita gets to the landing beaches, the American landings would have been over by then (they had been landing since October 20th), with far too many American troops and supplies already ashore and headed inland for a naval attack to have any major impact on American land operations.
The planes that dive bombed on the Yamato were SB2C Helldivers, not Corsairs. By the way, the animation is very well done, actually shows the end of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Captain tameichi hara, commanding yamatos only escorting cruiser Yahagi, survived the war and ended up writing a book called 'japanese destroyer captain'. During his career, he commanded the destroyer amatsukaze in the early stages of the war, turned the 2nd line ship Shigure into a veteran destroyer and naval legend, was an instructor on a PT boat school before commanding yahagi during ten go. He also revolutionized the torpedo doctrine of the destroyers after seeing the poor accuracy in pre war training. He is the only pre war japanese destroyer captain to survive WW2 and his book is one of the few professional sources on the IJNs perspecive of WW2. I highly reccomend it.
The book follows his actions from the beginning of the war until he is rescued in the sea by the men who served under him. His story of the war illustrates the successes of the IJN early in the war and how the USN improved and increased its ships, crews and technology beyond Japan's ability to compete.
The main thing I remember from the book is how stupidly the IJN commanders were. He rails about their stupid decisions and orders throughout the book. One thing was that they would do an attack a certain way, and then they'd do the exact same thing the next day. But that 2nd day the Americans were waiting for them and destroyed them. Don't be predictable in war.
I really liked how the Corsairs were animated, and the narration alongside it. It really conveyed the contempt, and enraged determination that the Americans must have felt, trying to pay Japan back for Pearl Harbor. Considering the tragic loss of life from both sides, Admiral Yamamoto’s quote about awakening a sleeping giant remains the most powerful quote I will never forget.
How the animation changed over time is something that amazes me. This is almost movie like and I am proud of the progression in content that this channel has made ever since I started watching and I look foward to future projects.
I was talking to someone who did CGI for major films once and I asked what the most difficult thing he had to do was. He responded without a second hesitation "water" Knowing this I cannot help but be seriously impressed with how much Yarnhub has stepped up their game
This account had me welling up with tears. I don't know why but the sinking of these large battleships always makes me emotional. I suppose it's because so often hundreds or even thousands of sailors are lost at once. Stories about the Hood, the Bismark and the Yamato always get to me. It's a shame this video wasn't another Sabaton crossover. I'd have loved a new song produced by them. Still, this was a great video and it's interesting to hear from one of the sailors. Such a hopeless mission, a terrible waste.
@@jeremyjackson7429 Eh, I think Hirohito having to face admit publicly to the populace that he wasn't a god was a greater punishment than simply killing him off.
Can’t remember how long it has been since I first stumbled upon this channel and subscribed, but the quality of it has improved time and time again and so glad y’all have grown to 525k subs as the time of this video. Keep up the good work everyone!
By that point in the war, the effectiveness of the carrier-based Allied warplanes combined with the increasing skill of the men who flew them was beyond anything anyone on either side of the conflict could have even imagined in 1941. "Awoke a sleeping giant", indeed!
Us: wanna hear an even better one Japan: no Us: last stand of the tin cans Japan: fuck you For those who don’t know the Yamato and her contingent was beat by mostly just 3 fletcher class destroyers and a couple other very low on ammunition ships/plains during the battle off Samar. The Yamato lost to ships not even half its size that where completely outnumbered and outgunned Biggest navel underdog win in history
Yamato (大和) was the lead ship of her class of battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) shortly before World War II. She and her sister ship, Musashi, were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, displacing nearly 72,000 tonnes at full load and armed with nine 46 cm (18.1 in) Type 94 main guns, which were the largest guns ever mounted on a warship. Named after the ancient Japanese Yamato Province, Yamato was designed to counter the numerically superior battleship fleet of the United States, Japan's main rival in the Pacific. She was laid down in 1937 and formally commissioned a week after the Pearl Harbor attack in late 1941. Throughout 1942, she served as the flagship of the Combined Fleet, and in June 1942 Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto directed the fleet from her bridge during the Battle of Midway, a disastrous defeat for Japan. Musashi took over as the Combined Fleet flagship in early 1943, and Yamato spent the rest of the year moving between the major Japanese naval bases of Truk and Kure in response to American threats. In December 1943, Yamato was torpedoed by an American submarine which necessitated repairs at Kure, where she would also be refitted with additional anti-aircraft guns and radar in early 1944. Although present at the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944, she played no part in the battle. The only time Yamato fired her main guns at enemy surface targets was in October 1944, when she was sent to engage American forces invading the Philippines during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. While threatening to sink American troop transports, they encountered a light escort carrier group of the U.S. Navy's Task Force 77, "Taffy 3", in the Battle off Samar. The Japanese turned back after American air attacks and convinced them they were engaging a powerful US carrier fleet. During 1944, the balance of naval power in the Pacific decisively turned against Japan, and by early 1945, its fleet was much depleted and badly hobbled by critical fuel shortages in the home islands. In a desperate attempt to slow the Allied advance, Yamato was dispatched on a one-way mission to Okinawa in April 1945, with orders to beach herself and fight until destroyed, thus protecting the island. The task force was spotted south of Kyushu by US submarines and aircraft, and on 7 April 1945, she was sunk by American carrier-based bombers and torpedo bombers with the loss of most of her crew.
This wasn't Yamato's first run in with the USN. Battle off Samar was, where the Japanese chickened out and ran rather than take on a few DD's and DE's. That was the beginning of the end for the IJN.
@@Alpha_627 As a kid in the 80s I built a model of the Dambuster bomber, was always fascinated with the story of how the cylinder shaped bombs had to be spun to make them skip. Later in life, I learned that George Lucas was a fan of that portion of history as well, and probably based the "Trench Run" made by the Rebels in Star Wars on it. Apparently there were many similarities between how the X-Wings had to run through the trench, and the Dambusters had to fly at low altitude through valleys where the dams were located, with anti-aircraft emplacements peppering them all the while.
@@johns9652 Star Wars is one of my favorite series, the Clone Wars TV show I watched as a kid most of its episodes based off history. For example, the first few episodes are based off the hunt for the Bismarck
@@thespetsnaz2272 nice, I have a 1/700 fleet of USS South Dakota, HMS Renown (currently working on), USS Johnston, Z-39, and HMAS Vampire. I also have a HMS Ark Royal and a USS The Sullivans to work on. I’ve actually been on board the real DD-537
The first time the young sailors of Japan when they saw her sister, Musashi, sunk even though being the pride of the navy, they are filled with shock and disbelief. They were taught that nothing could sink such being. I can't imagine the horrors of these poor felt when they saw this happening.
IJN Yukikaze might be the only ship to be called "Unsinkable" that actually lived up to that calling. She survived this Operation with only 3 casualties (out of 12 throughout the war) and the war. She didn't survive the storm in 1969 though.
Same as the HMS Sydney, the Nazis relied on deception to destroy her. In Western Australia, Geraldton. There's a statue of a woman pointing in the direction of the sea, where HMS Sydney fell in service with its 600+ crewman, no one survived. The Nazis ship, was a very deceptive looking battle ship, rules of engagement where that a ship can only fire on another ship if they can see their flag. The Nazis ship (Komoran) didn't raise their flag until the HMS Sydney was close enough for massive ship destroying underwater guns where in range. The rest is history.
The Yamato was a powerhouse of a ship when fighting other ships, but the air was a major weakness that was discovered quickly and exploited when this counterattack was planned.
Yeah. Had the japanese been successful in their plan to knock out US carriers at pearl harbor (they failed because the carriers weren't there) then the yamato would've had a much freer hand in the pacific. And once japan lost most of their carriers at midway there were no assets capable of protecting the yamato either.
@@killman369547 Ironically enough, Japan's greatest foe was nature itself, since a storm is what saved the Enterprise (a MAJOR player in the whole Pacific campaign against the Japanese) from the Pearl Harbor attack by slowing it (and I believe a couple of other ships as well) down so that they arrived after the attack
People say that some channels are underrated but this one is THE ACTUAL underrated one since its 3d animations that are realistic and yet only has half a million subs? It's actually confusing and make sense why its underrated Can you make a 3rd remake of the piggy back bombers again in the future? I miss that and it would look really good with your teams todays skills
Amazing! Love the history and story of the Battleship Yamato. I first learned of it from the Dogfights episode Death of the Japanese Navy. So glad this channel covered the Yamato and I think this one of the best historical animation channels that have covered this to date.
Great timing on posting this, as it is the anniversary of the 'Yamato's sinking. Watching it made me think of the Battle off Samar, which you should definitely do a video on, for it is one of the greatest underdog stories ever.
Samar was not as one-sided as commonly assumed. If you actually want a story of WWII Japan being humiliated in a naval last stand, take a look at Edsall’s last stand.
@@bkjeong4302 I completely agree with the statement about the USS Edsall. How one small destroyer outmaneuvered the Imperial Japanese Navy for hours, yet finally succumbing, is a truly incredible last stand.
It’s absolutely wild the size of those shells… Basically flinging Honda Civics at the enemy. Also, thank you for showing how most of us play World of Warships. I always iron n press my now far too small JROTC Dress Blues as the game is loading up.
I find it justly ironic that the chief symbolic weapon and tactic used to shatter the Japanese Empire, and bring it to account for the evils it committed, was the same one they originally pioneered. The naval air attack. They used it on America at Pearl Harbor and it was then used to shatter their carrier fleets at Midway, was used to think the pride of their Navy: Yamato, and then it was by air that the last attacks came to end the war they had started.
Yarnhub sure has some interesting ship stories. You should do one regarding the USS Laffey. She was an Allen M. Sumner class destroyer best known for surviving the most unrelenting Kamikaze attack in history on April 16th, 1945.
@@shermantankstudios9086 In 1946, following the Kamikaze strikes, The USS LAFFEY was repaired and used in the Operation Crossroads testing. She survived, and was hosed down to remove the radiation. She would be decommissioned and put into reserve till Vietnam. She was once again decommissioned and was turned into a museum ship
@@magnum6763 I was aware she was turned into a floating museum, but I was not aware that she was used in a nuclear bomb test. When I read about the Laffey, I guess I failed to catch the story of it surviving a nuclear bomb or forgot about it. Laffey went through all sorts of experiences that would sink just about any other ship. Laffey's survival during D-Day and later the Kamikaze attack would earn her the nickname: "The Ship That Would Not Die". And her nickname would stay with her through the nuclear bomb test and later become a floating museum.
@@shermantankstudios9086 honestly most people don't know it. its surprising that they got the radiation under control tho, we tried that with many other things and it didn't work
Hi there! I've been following you for some time. I have to say that you do a tremendous job and you keep getting better. I would like to make a request. Can you do a video about the battle off Samar? The one where taffy 3 engaged admiral kurita fleet? It would be interesting taken into account the disparity of force between the two sides and the heroic actions of taffy 3. Thanks!
amazing video! the detail on the ships and the escorting destroyers and light cruiser was cool, with all the different guns animated. the only thing i noticed was the 12.7cm guns rapid firing like the 25mm guns, which made me laugh lol. i look forward to seeing more naval videos in the future. also as a suggestion, the 100th/442nd infantry Nisei banzai charge in the Vosges in 1944.
IJN: We've built this super OP armoured huge battleship, nothing can stop it. Some guy: Ok, is its armour strong enough to stop bombs? IJN: Lol no, bombs can go through its upper deck, conning tower, etc, decimating the crew. Some guy: Ok.... Is it invulnerable to torpedoes? IJN: Lol no. It can maybe bounce or absorb one or two torps, but most will go through and damage, flood it, etc. Some guy: Ok.... can it protect itself against aircraft then? IJN: Lol no. There's nowhere near enough AA, most of them can't hit or damage anything, they are not protected, and the AA gunners spend most of their time watching anime. Some guy: Ok, you guys didn't think this through, right? IJN: Lol no.
its so amazing how the water effects and the flak is so real and the glimpse of the light i see your potential yarnhub team on making of this video,bravo!
Was looking forward to the creation of a Yarnhub video of Yamato. Thank you Yarnhub for covering naval, I hope in the future will we be able to see the end of Mushai battleship (sorry for spelling)Mers El Kabir or any other great sea battles of world War 2. Thank you for all the hard work.
Here's a fact, Yamato did less impact on the war than HMS Prince of Wales or the Bismarck. Bismarck made a blow to British morale by sinking HMS Hood, HMS Prince of Wales damaged Bismarck which helped the British find her because her shell cause an oil leak on the Bismarck. Bismarck became a problem to the British not because the ship is harder to sink, but because it is hard to find.
Bismarck and Prince of Wales were irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, especially since the British could simply have sent carriers to Denmark Strait and attacked Bismarck with impunity had they’d been smarter about it, rendering both of the battleships impotent. Honestly the ONLY WWII-era generation battleships to ever do anything to merit their existence were Washington and Duke of York.
The story of Yamato and her sisters is one of my favorite stories of WW2 from being already obsolete by their completion yet seeing combat for the first time in 1944. Shinano sunk just 11 days after commissioning, Musashi meeting her demise as quickly as her combat career started and Yamato’s suicidal charge into her demise (also a few things id like to mention, SB2C helldivers and F6F Hellcats also participated in the assault and the 127mm cannons behind the “cylinder” 25mm AA guns are not automatic)
❤️ you Yarnhub, just amazing as always! Not just the animations but the way they're shot and timed with the narrative, and I also love how you consider different perspectives from all sides. You've outdone yourselves on this one, well done!
I love how the sun had a red glow when the camera looked into it, nice detail to the country's hq ship also this is awesome how you guys did the fire on the ship
Yarnhub, I am glad you posted this on the same day that Yamato sank, it is unfortunate that it was destroyed, I would like to see the giant battleship in real life but at least we get to see it in movies and video games, you are as always the best channel to watch cool, stunning and dazzling animations of ships, planes and vehicles, maybe one day you can talk about a Motorsport history, preferably my favorite Motorsport history, the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans
There is a model of the Yamato in the Kure Naval Museum, in Japan. It's not a 1:1 scale reproduction, but it is at least 40 feet long. That's the second-best thing, I guess
This channel is very good at showing how the war wasn’t waged by waves of good versus evil. it was fought by young men guided by generals safe at home who want more, sending young men into they’re death
I had never really thought about how it was to be a sailor on Yamato during her last stand. This video really put into perspective how fucking terrifying it must have been to see 70k tons worth of steel roll over and sink
The ship's breaking up, with the turrets coming adrift, really shows the horrific reality of a warship's death. And, seriously, all that was through just one fish striking home? Whoever ordered that operation had to be homicidally deranged beyond all sense - the Japanese would have known what must happen to big ships without air cover after sinking Prince of Wales and Repulse.
Fun fact about the yamoto on every other battleship some of the battleships out there, whenever their main batteries fired whoever it fired whoever was right by the guns could have their eardrums blasted out. It was kind of the same with destroyers with 5 inch cannons. Paint was known to be ripped off the ship.
Operation Ten-Go definitely seemed wasteful from Ito’s perspective. Considering the amount of destruction caused by the aerial bombardments, naval losses, air losses, and US submarine warfare making it almost impossible to transport new supplies, resources like the Yamato shouldn’t be seen as expendable. The part about Yamato’s explosive cloud seen close to Japan and as a eerie foreshadowing for Hiroshima and Nagasaki is haunting to think about
Being a pointless waste of resources that should never have been built is actually a WWII-era battleship thing in general. Even battleships with far more active careers (such as the Iowas) failed to justify themselves, being shoehorned into supporting roles that were already covered by other naval units at much less expenditure (and sometimes just tagging along without doing anything). Yamato simply tends to get singled out for this much more systematic problem. She deserves the criticism, but so does pretty much everything else. A battleship is only justifiable (at least strategically) as the primary naval unit, and the moment carriers took over that role at the end of the 1930s they were no longer justified.
@@aidengriffin8377 The air attacks at Samar were much more of a problem for the Japanese than commonly assumed. The escort carriers (from three separate Taffy groups, not just Taffy 3) did actually have aerial torpedoes and other actually dangerous weapons aboard. They just didn’t have them loaded onto the aircraft when the battle started (and even then, this only applies to Taffy 3 and Taffy 1), which is where the false idea the American air attacks didn’t pose a threat at all came from. Later air attacks took place after the aircraft were rearmed and were legitimately dangerous. And the fact there were three Taffy units sending in airstrikes, not one, meant that the air attacks during Samar involved quite a lot of aircraft-especially towards the end of the battle. In fact, two of the Japanese cruiser losses at Samar supposedly caused by surface action actually were the result of American air attacks.
Yamato sank the escort carrier Gambeir Bay and helped to sink the destroyers Johnston and Hoel a few months earlier during the naval battle off Samar, Yamato's first and only true naval action.
With great respect to yarnhub for the great content and work you do. As for the great warship. What a sad end to a great ship that deserves better than what was her last action. To say I loved this anamaion is an understatement. Keep it up. A fan from southwestern MN for more than a year and half. Waiting for more content and videos.
I just thought of something. "Giant battleships that could level my apartment in a single shell are cool and all, but when are we getting YarnCola?" "There had better be an ice cream float flavor."
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Hehehe
"The resulting mushroom cloud is seen from mainland Japan." That honestly is a erie line considering what happened at the end of the war. It just foreshadows what's going to happen.
Eerie indeed… it was basically Yamamoto’s “sleeping giant” quote. If they had a war against the US, a timer would run to the point where they were effectively done for.
That timer ran out here because, as mentioned, “it was the last major naval operation of Japan before the end of the war.” They couldn’t count on their powerful navy because the war had essentially cost them their entire navy.
History has a weird way of working things.
@@stevemc01 Very weird indeed
@@stevemc01 No, the timer ran out at Midway and became more and more obvious as the war went on.
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*Even so, they were living on borrowed time.*
@@SCP--fj2jr Well yeah, never said they weren't
I recommend the 2005 movie "Otokotachi no Yamato" (men of the yamato) for those interested in seeing more of the super battleship. It isn't exactly centered around Yamato herself however, rather, the men who served aboard her, from the Battle of Leyte Gulf, all the way to the end during operation Ten-Go; a 1/3 replica of Yamato (from what i remember) was even built for the film! A warning for those faint of heart, there are some graphic scenes (think of saving private ryan), if you don't like that, then I discourage that you watch it for your own sake.
I have seen clips of that movie on YT. You are right, it was very graphic. Thought the movie was well done.
One of the best scenes for me is (spoiler)
When the fisherman agrees to take the girl to where the Yamato sank, he sees the ship itself before his eyes, at this moment onion-cutting ninjas entered my room!
Yes, it abit gruesome movie to watch since there a gore
And the Dogfights episode Death of the Japanese Navy as well
Great movie
Love this channel more than any other history channel. The animation just gets more and more stunning and the content is always top notch.
Me too
Not that it's a competition, but Oversimplified is also excellent. Way less detailed animations, hence the name, but fantastically presented history documentaries that are both informative, easily digestible, and often hilarious.
@@cleverusername9369 Ja
@@cleverusername9369 can't disagree with you
Agreed
That magazine explosion was so powerful it knocked out several of the attacking American planes out of the sky. Ironically its explosions were more effective in destroying US aircraft than its entire armament.
I remember hearing that only 3 planes fell to AA, while 7 fell to the mag explosion
The proverbial "let's take as many as we can with us"...
ok yeah no thats funny
@@pedroarochasilva7714
True. Yamato wasn't gonna go down without dragging some down with her
I read that the explosion of the Yamato's powder magazines was 10% as powerful as the explosion of the Little Boy.
“At 13:33, in a desperate attempt to keep the ship from capsizing, Yamato's damage control team counter-flooded both starboard engine and boiler rooms. This mitigated the danger but also drowned the several hundred crewmen manning those stations, who were given no notice that their compartments were about to fill with water.” Just a little tidbit I found while reading up on this.
damn real shame they had to go in such a way.
That is really fucked up
Bruh moment
poor guys holy shit
Damn, I know they were Japanese Sailors but crap man, that's tragic
I feel sorry for those sailors and officers aboard those ships during that last operation of the Yamato. It wasn't even a kamikaze run. It was just sending them to die in the most pointless manner possible since it was a flat out fact that their force stood no chance at doing even the tiniest bit of significant damage to the Allied navy that was steaming ever closer toward mainland Japan by then.
It was the last generation bound by the Honor Code.
@@GetDougDimmadomed Oh I know. Don't misunderstand me. I'm not trying to criticize or belittle them or their honor and courage as soldiers. It's the moronic high command that sent them on the mission (again, pointlessly) and let them all get blown to bits and almost all die knowing full well that there was literally zero chance they could have accomplished ANYTHING significant.
There are stories that despite orders to only give Yamato enough fuel to get to Okinawa, the yard workers gave her every ounce of fuel they could spare so were to survive, she could make it home
Jeez the emperor was not a good commander...
@@Hello-tl4rm in face emperor irohito he has not thing to do with it but Tojo oh boy surely he did alot and he is the one start the war not the emperor
6:07 Note the empty anti-aircraft guns in front of the main batteries. Because the Japanese had the ingenious idea of using their main guns as AAA, nearby anti-aircraft guns could not be crewed. Though I doubt it would've changed the outcome by even a margin, Japanese 25mm guns were horrible during WW2.
Japanese AA was pretty shitty during the war.
They were box feed, compare to chains or even the clips the Bofors use.
Well the Japanese aren't known for having the greatest AA systems after all. You know how shitty they are when the number of U.S planes got taken down by the Yamato's explosion is even higher than the number of U.S aircraft got shot down by the AA.
@@hyperion5692 that's ironic in a lot of ways
Japanese AA was fine, it was good before the war and only got obsolete later on, AA wasn't actually meant to shot down planes but just to mitigate what damage they could have done without them, and considering the fact that the Yamato survived the first wave with superficial damage, I'd say they did their job just fine.
An American veteran of that attack later admitted that it scarred him for life. He felt horrible for bombing a vessel full of kids. A Japanese survivor stated that he was told that to prevent flooding, they had to seal hatches closed. There were men down there looking up at him when he closed them, and it meant certain death for them. He said after that "War can be so brutal". Seeing it from both sides makes it even more tragic when you think about us.
May they all who served in that conflict find the peace that their lives denied them in the next
The first duty is to the ship, which can necessitate sealing people in flooding compartments, but ultimately allow the ship and everyone else to survive.
"It's a good thing that war is so cruel, lest men grow too fond of it" - General Robert E. Lee
no kidding?
No kidding @@cheiatianbriem2078
The production quality of these videos is ridiculously good. Well done to all involved.
Huh? None of the characters look Japanese!
@@jmseipp Who cares?
@@CodingK1d Anyone who has an interest in actual history! It doesn’t look believable when you make the Japanese sailors look like Caucasian people. Imagine this same film maker made a film about the German equivalent battleship the Bismarck, and all of the German sailors look JAPANESE! Wouldn’t that seem really strange! Ridiculous! Apparently they were terrified they’d be attacked and accused of making them look stereotyped or whatever but that’s ridiculous. Asian people look Asian and Caucasian people look Caucasian. I lived in Japan for years. I know very well what Japanese people look like and none of the Japanese sailors in this animated film even look remotely Japanese.
Good to see you here Ben, I'm a big fan! Great timepiece channel👍🏻
@@jmseipp nobody wants slant eyed kids
My Great Uncle served on the IJN Musashi (sister ship of the Yamato) when it was bombed. He survived the war with his left lung gone and one of his arms blown off. He later went to found a text book supply company for public schools. He donated money to his hometown library every year. He also became an instructor of pottery. I never met him when I could remember, but my mother told me that when he held me ad a baby, I smiled at him and he smiled back. He passed away in his sleep around 10 years ago.
He's one of the crew that survived Leyte gulf?
@@turbochargedtrex I believe so.
@@super-kamarigaming7907 Remarkable!
R.I.P. brother man.
☮️🩵🖖🏻✝️♾️🕉🪬⚛️
If only we could hear his stories.
Building the Yamato is like forging the ultimate sword while everyone use machine gun
Until Pearl Harbour, all navies believed that naval battles were to be fought by battleships with carriers acting as supporting vessels. Once the Americans realised the true power of carriers, they began churning them out like sausages in their shipyards.
@@bemusedpanda8875 Definitely love sausages but not from shipyards
@@bemusedpanda8875 the Japanese realized the power of the carrier before the us did just look at pearl harber it was a massive hit to the us navy but the main Japanese target was the carriers battleships were far below carriers of the target list
However no carriers were in port but if they had waited a day uss enterprise would have been in port
Stop using this sentence
@@analex4044 so?
3:08 You will notice that the Catalina is flying, yet its engines are not running. This is not a mistake. Like any red-blooded American plane, it is flying through sheer determination, willpower, and patriotism.
FPS and Rotation speed are same 😪
@@lostmusic99 Nah. Those propellers arent moving.
Don't forget the sheer amount of FREEDOM
I wonder if it was standard practice to kill the engines and glide for a bit to kill sound lol
'MURICA!
fun fact: the IJN Yukikaze, one of the escort destroyer in this operation, participated in all major operation and survived the war
she was partially sunk by a natural disaster and chinese governement destroyer her (sad)
she was called "the miracle ship" or "the unsinkable ship"
no not sad
@@JoeMama-jd2ns why? xD
She is quite cute too
@@elektro36 nanoda
It's a reoccuring trend with unsinkable ships...
I think that Yamato is symbolic of biting off more than you can chew. More aircraft were sent to kill Yamato than Japan sent to attack Pearl Harbor. That’s how outclassed they were in production.
She really was a waste of time and resources. All she truly accomplished was wounding a few Tin Cans before those same vessels scared her off with a spread of torpedoes.
Plus it was beat by the Johnston and the rest of taffy 3 just a few weeks prior during the last stand of the tin cans
The taffy 3 were a fletcher class transport escorts.
B1tch was just glorified "floatig hotel". 😂😂😂
At least Musashi got some action, took more beatings & participate in more battles.
I really love how you guys focused on the crew of the Yamato. Everything I've seen before is how it was a great victory for the US Navy towards the end of the war. Thank you for telling the other half of the story and showing the Japanese sailors side.
Unhonorable massacreurs of Chinese citizens don’t deserve videos in their « honor »
Yep. They may have been part of the IJN but damn, this is a rough way to go out
There are clips on RUclips about this action, taken from a movie. Its in Japanese, but the action part is quite understandable. Be advised, it can be gory...
all i'd heard growing up made Yamato out to be this epic final boss for the us navy to beat.
Now as an adult it was a mighty ship that never got the chance to do what it was good out and both it and it's loyal crew were sent to die on a pointless suicide mission that didn't even delay the inevitable.
How much better it would've been for Yamato and her crew to live to see the new Japan post-war
It sounds like you forgot who started the war? We just finished it.
11:50-12:00 is actually terrifying. I don't know why but I'd always assumed the Yamato never saw combat. Excellent video as always :)
If those timestamps are a scary thought to you then don't read up on the HMHS Britannic which only loss of life was related to ahem..
BTW you may also now have submechanophobia which is exactly that fear.
She technically never did truly. The ship spent most of its career in port because she needed so much fuel to run that Japan couldn't afford to fuel it. Her first battle would've been Midway, but the carriers were sunk before she arrived and they ordered her back to Japan. The only combat she ever saw against surface ships was in Leyte Gulf when she engaged Taffy 3 as part of Center Force. She ended up taking enough damage that she had to divert and leave the battle.
it sort of never did. There is a piece of yamato armor pierced by a US gun "after it was defeated and shot at point blank range" otherwise they couldn't go through on an naval to naval combat. On one hand i can only congratulate the Us for using carriers to sink the yamato, on the other hand exposing a piece of armor they pierced post battle is pathetic.
@@ShawneeLad117 Not quite. Yamato didn't take real damage during the surface action at Leyte Gulf. The Japanese withdrawal was due to the rather spectacular failure of Admiral Kurita to arrange his screening destroyers properly and press the advantage when he had it. Yamato did sink a US escort carrier with its guns, one of the longest naval gunfire hits in history.
@@Cailus3542 Kurita was right to retreat in the grand scheme of things. Yes, he actually could have wiped out Taffy 3, but this ignores that the air attacks were coming from Taffy 1 and 2 as well (and with actual aerial torpedoes to boot), and that the rest of Seventh Fleet was moving north to intercept. On top off that, even if Kurita gets to the landing beaches, the American landings would have been over by then (they had been landing since October 20th), with far too many American troops and supplies already ashore and headed inland for a naval attack to have any major impact on American land operations.
This is some of the highest quality content on RUclips, and I absolutely adore it.
The planes that dive bombed on the Yamato were SB2C Helldivers, not Corsairs. By the way, the animation is very well done, actually shows the end of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
At least the torpedo planes were avengers in the video.
Captain tameichi hara, commanding yamatos only escorting cruiser Yahagi, survived the war and ended up writing a book called 'japanese destroyer captain'.
During his career, he commanded the destroyer amatsukaze in the early stages of the war, turned the 2nd line ship Shigure into a veteran destroyer and naval legend, was an instructor on a PT boat school before commanding yahagi during ten go. He also revolutionized the torpedo doctrine of the destroyers after seeing the poor accuracy in pre war training.
He is the only pre war japanese destroyer captain to survive WW2 and his book is one of the few professional sources on the IJNs perspecive of WW2. I highly reccomend it.
The book follows his actions from the beginning of the war until he is rescued in the sea by the men who served under him. His story of the war illustrates the successes of the IJN early in the war and how the USN improved and increased its ships, crews and technology beyond Japan's ability to compete.
The main thing I remember from the book is how stupidly the IJN commanders were. He rails about their stupid decisions and orders throughout the book. One thing was that they would do an attack a certain way, and then they'd do the exact same thing the next day. But that 2nd day the Americans were waiting for them and destroyed them. Don't be predictable in war.
This channel is still 10x better than the History Channel and my current history class. Keep up on the animation work Yarnhub!
Yeah simple history is somehow liked more then this
I really liked how the Corsairs were animated, and the narration alongside it. It really conveyed the contempt, and enraged determination that the Americans must have felt, trying to pay Japan back for Pearl Harbor. Considering the tragic loss of life from both sides, Admiral Yamamoto’s quote about awakening a sleeping giant remains the most powerful quote I will never forget.
Only there weren't any Corsairs at the actual battle. The fighters that strafed the Yamato were Hellcats and the dive-bombers were Helldivers.
@@kgblagden I had thought about that while watching, it wasn’t something I was particularly bothered by, regardless of accuracy.
Admiral Yamamoto tried to Wark his colleagues but... it's sad when you're the only voice of reason in a room full of powerful men
when the japanese messed with your boats so you dismember their entire empire: almost lost my cool there
@@juusto7171 I believe the phrase is “fuck around and find out” haha
How the animation changed over time is something that amazes me. This is almost movie like and I am proud of the progression in content that this channel has made ever since I started watching and I look foward to future projects.
I was talking to someone who did CGI for major films once and I asked what the most difficult thing he had to do was. He responded without a second hesitation "water"
Knowing this I cannot help but be seriously impressed with how much Yarnhub has stepped up their game
This account had me welling up with tears. I don't know why but the sinking of these large battleships always makes me emotional. I suppose it's because so often hundreds or even thousands of sailors are lost at once. Stories about the Hood, the Bismark and the Yamato always get to me. It's a shame this video wasn't another Sabaton crossover. I'd have loved a new song produced by them. Still, this was a great video and it's interesting to hear from one of the sailors. Such a hopeless mission, a terrible waste.
It gets worse for YAMATO: She was sent to her death purely because the Emperor had supposedly called the Navy's honor into question.
@@dimasgirl2749 there is no honor without U
@@dimasgirl2749 The biggest mistake the U.S. made was bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki instead of the imperial palace
@@jeremyjackson7429 Eh, I think Hirohito having to face admit publicly to the populace that he wasn't a god was a greater punishment than simply killing him off.
I always feel for Arizona even though she wasn't in battle when lost.
I usually skip sponsor part of the video but not on yarnhub's ones, since the animation is so well done and humorous!
Can’t remember how long it has been since I first stumbled upon this channel and subscribed, but the quality of it has improved time and time again and so glad y’all have grown to 525k subs as the time of this video. Keep up the good work everyone!
Fax
The first vid i watched was the me 109 who spared a b17 (the old one not the reboot)
@@robertagpaoa2261 **BF
My grandma had family on this behemoth. They were of the few who survived.
@@man-od5is their where survivors some managed to slide off the ship or jumped off to survive the explosion
U know nothing @man
@@man-od5is 276 sailors survived
By that point in the war, the effectiveness of the carrier-based Allied warplanes combined with the increasing skill of the men who flew them was beyond anything anyone on either side of the conflict could have even imagined in 1941. "Awoke a sleeping giant", indeed!
In Japan, "battleship Yamato" is used as an example of non practical products with expensive functions.
This is without a doubt my favorite battleship of ww2, we had Bismarck I knew it was just a matter of time before we got the Yamato.
I think the bismarck one more action
But I love them both
We learned from the sinking of the Musashi to only attack one side once the AA was suppressed.
@@7r47ufchfyw7twguwgu I mean, the reason being was that the Bismarck actually fought SHIPS and not a swarm of planes
@@takebacktheholyland9306 yep and planes so basically was poth
USA: wanna hear a joke?
Japan: what?
USA: midway
Japan: I don't get it
USA: and you never will
Because they won’t be there to get it
Nice job pilot
Us: wanna hear an even better one
Japan: no
Us: last stand of the tin cans
Japan: fuck you
For those who don’t know the Yamato and her contingent was beat by mostly just 3 fletcher class destroyers and a couple other very low on ammunition ships/plains during the battle off Samar. The Yamato lost to ships not even half its size that where completely outnumbered and outgunned
Biggest navel underdog win in history
Excellent work Yarnhub, 10/10, you are good at this, I didn't know much about the Yamato, what a desperately sad futile mission
I love how you show the loyalty and courage of the Japanese. They were anything but cowards.
Yamato (大和) was the lead ship of her class of battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) shortly before World War II. She and her sister ship, Musashi, were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, displacing nearly 72,000 tonnes at full load and armed with nine 46 cm (18.1 in) Type 94 main guns, which were the largest guns ever mounted on a warship.
Named after the ancient Japanese Yamato Province, Yamato was designed to counter the numerically superior battleship fleet of the United States, Japan's main rival in the Pacific. She was laid down in 1937 and formally commissioned a week after the Pearl Harbor attack in late 1941. Throughout 1942, she served as the flagship of the Combined Fleet, and in June 1942 Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto directed the fleet from her bridge during the Battle of Midway, a disastrous defeat for Japan. Musashi took over as the Combined Fleet flagship in early 1943, and Yamato spent the rest of the year moving between the major Japanese naval bases of Truk and Kure in response to American threats. In December 1943, Yamato was torpedoed by an American submarine which necessitated repairs at Kure, where she would also be refitted with additional anti-aircraft guns and radar in early 1944. Although present at the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944, she played no part in the battle.
The only time Yamato fired her main guns at enemy surface targets was in October 1944, when she was sent to engage American forces invading the Philippines during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. While threatening to sink American troop transports, they encountered a light escort carrier group of the U.S. Navy's Task Force 77, "Taffy 3", in the Battle off Samar. The Japanese turned back after American air attacks and convinced them they were engaging a powerful US carrier fleet.
During 1944, the balance of naval power in the Pacific decisively turned against Japan, and by early 1945, its fleet was much depleted and badly hobbled by critical fuel shortages in the home islands. In a desperate attempt to slow the Allied advance, Yamato was dispatched on a one-way mission to Okinawa in April 1945, with orders to beach herself and fight until destroyed, thus protecting the island. The task force was spotted south of Kyushu by US submarines and aircraft, and on 7 April 1945, she was sunk by American carrier-based bombers and torpedo bombers with the loss of most of her crew.
This wasn't Yamato's first run in with the USN. Battle off Samar was, where the Japanese chickened out and ran rather than take on a few DD's and DE's. That was the beginning of the end for the IJN.
Amazing! Not only how you tell the story, but the ships are phenomenal looking!
The yamato is my favorite battleship of all time. I have a 29 inch long model of it and it is just beautiful. A truly gorgeous ship
Is it built model? I have built a few ships, it’s odd how machines of war can bring a small and peaceful hobby decades later
It’s built, just like the shimakaze and USS Essex that sit next to it
@@Alpha_627 As a kid in the 80s I built a model of the Dambuster bomber, was always fascinated with the story of how the cylinder shaped bombs had to be spun to make them skip. Later in life, I learned that George Lucas was a fan of that portion of history as well, and probably based the "Trench Run" made by the Rebels in Star Wars on it.
Apparently there were many similarities between how the X-Wings had to run through the trench, and the Dambusters had to fly at low altitude through valleys where the dams were located, with anti-aircraft emplacements peppering them all the while.
@@johns9652 Star Wars is one of my favorite series, the Clone Wars TV show I watched as a kid most of its episodes based off history. For example, the first few episodes are based off the hunt for the Bismarck
@@thespetsnaz2272 nice, I have a 1/700 fleet of USS South Dakota, HMS Renown (currently working on), USS Johnston, Z-39, and HMAS Vampire. I also have a HMS Ark Royal and a USS The Sullivans to work on. I’ve actually been on board the real DD-537
The first time the young sailors of Japan when they saw her sister, Musashi, sunk even though being the pride of the navy, they are filled with shock and disbelief. They were taught that nothing could sink such being. I can't imagine the horrors of these poor felt when they saw this happening.
IJN Yukikaze might be the only ship to be called "Unsinkable" that actually lived up to that calling. She survived this Operation with only 3 casualties (out of 12 throughout the war) and the war. She didn't survive the storm in 1969 though.
@@A7XFan800 Considering how many operations she did, you are right. Probably the luckiest ship in the IJN overall.
三式弾の砲弾を赤く表現している点でなかなかの再現力とは思ったが、航空機を直接撃つものではなく編隊の前面で炸裂させて解き放たれる散弾で複数の航空機にダメージを与える兵器なので、そのシーンを期待していました。
If we ever build a space battleship, the Yamato's steel needs to be used in its construction. And YES, I'm a big fan of Space Battleship Yamato.
We need more videos like these. Asap! Keep up the great narrating and animations! Love it!
Whenever I hear about Yamato , it makes me sad. Such a mighty ship got wasted. No one saw her full potential.
Although it’s absolutely for the best
Yeah like look at bismarck he may of sunk but at what cost?
The royal navy's pride
The mighty hood
Same as the HMS Sydney, the Nazis relied on deception to destroy her. In Western Australia, Geraldton. There's a statue of a woman pointing in the direction of the sea, where HMS Sydney fell in service with its 600+ crewman, no one survived. The Nazis ship, was a very deceptive looking battle ship, rules of engagement where that a ship can only fire on another ship if they can see their flag. The Nazis ship (Komoran) didn't raise their flag until the HMS Sydney was close enough for massive ship destroying underwater guns where in range. The rest is history.
This applies to ANY WWII-era battleship.
@@bkjeong4302 Other than the enterprise. I think I'm gonna go out of a limb and say it might've gotten too much for that matter
That was a smooth ad transition. Yarnhub, always doing everything right.
The Yamato was a powerhouse of a ship when fighting other ships, but the air was a major weakness that was discovered quickly and exploited when this counterattack was planned.
Yeah. Had the japanese been successful in their plan to knock out US carriers at pearl harbor (they failed because the carriers weren't there) then the yamato would've had a much freer hand in the pacific. And once japan lost most of their carriers at midway there were no assets capable of protecting the yamato either.
@@killman369547 Ironically enough, Japan's greatest foe was nature itself, since a storm is what saved the Enterprise (a MAJOR player in the whole Pacific campaign against the Japanese) from the Pearl Harbor attack by slowing it (and I believe a couple of other ships as well) down so that they arrived after the attack
People say that some channels are underrated but this one is THE ACTUAL underrated one since its 3d animations that are realistic and yet only has half a million subs? It's actually confusing and make sense why its underrated
Can you make a 3rd remake of the piggy back bombers again in the future? I miss that and it would look really good with your teams todays skills
I love the perspective that you use for this and the Bismarck video, it’s always nice to see things from a different point of view!
Amazing! Love the history and story of the Battleship Yamato. I first learned of it from the Dogfights episode Death of the Japanese Navy. So glad this channel covered the Yamato and I think this one of the best historical animation channels that have covered this to date.
Great timing on posting this, as it is the anniversary of the 'Yamato's sinking. Watching it made me think of the Battle off Samar, which you should definitely do a video on, for it is one of the greatest underdog stories ever.
The true greatest battleship and heavey cruser respectivly, the Samule B Roberts and the Johnston.
Samar was not as one-sided as commonly assumed. If you actually want a story of WWII Japan being humiliated in a naval last stand, take a look at Edsall’s last stand.
@@bkjeong4302 I completely agree with the statement about the USS Edsall. How one small destroyer outmaneuvered the Imperial Japanese Navy for hours, yet finally succumbing, is a truly incredible last stand.
Not only that, but it's the only time in her carrer that the yamato opened fire and sunk enemy ships
It’s absolutely wild the size of those shells… Basically flinging Honda Civics at the enemy.
Also, thank you for showing how most of us play World of Warships. I always iron n press my now far too small JROTC Dress Blues as the game is loading up.
A Honda Civic is 2,762 pounds, Yamato's 18.1-inch shells were 3,220 pounds.
I find it justly ironic that the chief symbolic weapon and tactic used to shatter the Japanese Empire, and bring it to account for the evils it committed, was the same one they originally pioneered. The naval air attack. They used it on America at Pearl Harbor and it was then used to shatter their carrier fleets at Midway, was used to think the pride of their Navy: Yamato, and then it was by air that the last attacks came to end the war they had started.
Thank you for making amazing history videos yarnhub. I have learned tons of history from you.
Yarnhub sure has some interesting ship stories.
You should do one regarding the USS Laffey. She was an Allen M. Sumner class destroyer best known for surviving the most unrelenting Kamikaze attack in history on April 16th, 1945.
ehem and a nuke, dont forget that
@@magnum6763 no nukes were involved on the attack on the Laffey or the Yamato
@@shermantankstudios9086 In 1946, following the Kamikaze strikes, The USS LAFFEY was repaired and used in the Operation Crossroads testing. She survived, and was hosed down to remove the radiation. She would be decommissioned and put into reserve till Vietnam. She was once again decommissioned and was turned into a museum ship
@@magnum6763 I was aware she was turned into a floating museum, but I was not aware that she was used in a nuclear bomb test. When I read about the Laffey, I guess I failed to catch the story of it surviving a nuclear bomb or forgot about it.
Laffey went through all sorts of experiences that would sink just about any other ship. Laffey's survival during D-Day and later the Kamikaze attack would earn her the nickname: "The Ship That Would Not Die". And her nickname would stay with her through the nuclear bomb test and later become a floating museum.
@@shermantankstudios9086 honestly most people don't know it. its surprising that they got the radiation under control tho, we tried that with many other things and it didn't work
Hi there! I've been following you for some time. I have to say that you do a tremendous job and you keep getting better. I would like to make a request. Can you do a video about the battle off Samar? The one where taffy 3 engaged admiral kurita fleet? It would be interesting taken into account the disparity of force between the two sides and the heroic actions of taffy 3. Thanks!
YES. DO IT!!! 😁
ngl but the animations is just like a game with the best graphics and this part 7:04 is insane bro like i want this to be my wallpaper
Awesome as always 💐👍🙏 Loads of Love from INDIA 🙏
More Pacific war stories please! Battle of Leyte Gulf, Marianas Turkey Shoot, or perhaps Midway? Great animation and story telling as always!
i love how the quality improves with every video, good job!
amazing video! the detail on the ships and the escorting destroyers and light cruiser was cool, with all the different guns animated. the only thing i noticed was the 12.7cm guns rapid firing like the 25mm guns, which made me laugh lol. i look forward to seeing more naval videos in the future. also as a suggestion, the 100th/442nd infantry Nisei banzai charge in the Vosges in 1944.
IJN: We've built this super OP armoured huge battleship, nothing can stop it.
Some guy: Ok, is its armour strong enough to stop bombs?
IJN: Lol no, bombs can go through its upper deck, conning tower, etc, decimating the crew.
Some guy: Ok.... Is it invulnerable to torpedoes?
IJN: Lol no. It can maybe bounce or absorb one or two torps, but most will go through and damage, flood it, etc.
Some guy: Ok.... can it protect itself against aircraft then?
IJN: Lol no. There's nowhere near enough AA, most of them can't hit or damage anything, they are not protected, and the AA gunners spend most of their time watching anime.
Some guy: Ok, you guys didn't think this through, right?
IJN: Lol no.
its so amazing how the water effects and the flak is so real and the glimpse of the light i see your potential yarnhub team on making of this video,bravo!
Once again you did a great job, over the months your animation has improved so much and it’s so much more realistic, so once again, great job.
The narration is brilliant. Congrats! Cheers from Chile!
Was looking forward to the creation of a Yarnhub video of Yamato. Thank you Yarnhub for covering naval, I hope in the future will we be able to see the end of Mushai battleship (sorry for spelling)Mers El Kabir or any other great sea battles of world War 2.
Thank you for all the hard work.
Guys let me just say how yarn hub and his crew are the best at making these videos 👌👌
Really great animation quality!
Here's a fact, Yamato did less impact on the war than HMS Prince of Wales or the Bismarck. Bismarck made a blow to British morale by sinking HMS Hood, HMS Prince of Wales damaged Bismarck which helped the British find her because her shell cause an oil leak on the Bismarck. Bismarck became a problem to the British not because the ship is harder to sink, but because it is hard to find.
In terms of impact, Yamato was closer to the Tirpitz
@@matthewlok3020 Yeah...the Lone Queen of the North...the British decided to sink the ship because Tirpitz is a potential threat.
Bismarck and Prince of Wales were irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, especially since the British could simply have sent carriers to Denmark Strait and attacked Bismarck with impunity had they’d been smarter about it, rendering both of the battleships impotent. Honestly the ONLY WWII-era generation battleships to ever do anything to merit their existence were Washington and Duke of York.
11:19 Whoops! That's one fast-firing 127mm gun!
Lol fr
The 127’s embracing the dakka fr
The story of Yamato and her sisters is one of my favorite stories of WW2 from being already obsolete by their completion yet seeing combat for the first time in 1944. Shinano sunk just 11 days after commissioning, Musashi meeting her demise as quickly as her combat career started and Yamato’s suicidal charge into her demise
(also a few things id like to mention, SB2C helldivers and F6F Hellcats also participated in the assault and the 127mm cannons behind the “cylinder” 25mm AA guns are not automatic)
Eventually, the Yamato will be raised to fight the Gamilons in space. Go Star Blazers!
大和に乗っていた方３名にお会いしてお話しを伺いましたが、ただただ感謝の念だけです。中でも３回もご自宅に伺った八杉康夫そんにお会いした時には『土下座』していました。皆鬼籍に入られましたが、貴重な経験をなさった方々でした。
❤️ you Yarnhub, just amazing as always! Not just the animations but the way they're shot and timed with the narrative, and I also love how you consider different perspectives from all sides. You've outdone yourselves on this one, well done!
I love how the sun had a red glow when the camera looked into it, nice detail to the country's hq ship
also this is awesome how you guys did the fire on the ship
Happy 77th Anniversary of her final voyage. The mighty Yamato.
That was a beautiful ship
This is one of the better historical channel's. The storys and art is vary well done ✔.
Yarnhub, I am glad you posted this on the same day that Yamato sank, it is unfortunate that it was destroyed, I would like to see the giant battleship in real life but at least we get to see it in movies and video games, you are as always the best channel to watch cool, stunning and dazzling animations of ships, planes and vehicles, maybe one day you can talk about a Motorsport history, preferably my favorite Motorsport history, the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans
There is a model of the Yamato in the Kure Naval Museum, in Japan. It's not a 1:1 scale reproduction, but it is at least 40 feet long. That's the second-best thing, I guess
This channel is very good at showing how the war wasn’t waged by waves of good versus evil. it was fought by young men guided by generals safe at home who want more, sending young men into they’re death
I would say there was a lot of evil done in the war. Want some examples?
@@MasonBryant not like there wast evils just it was like all men on both sides wanted a war
Wonderful! This is aHigh quality animation! Thank you for talking about Yamato. I love this channel!
Love the history and love the cat
"What is there to fear with the power of the mighty Yamato on your side?"
Answer: A massive horde of aircraft.
_Torpedo the Yamato. Torpedo the Yamato _*_again._*_ And finally _*_SINK THE YAMATO!_*
Fantastic stuff as usual. Glorious seeing the Corsair’s tear that ship apart. Such an awesome machine.
We'll just ignore that Corsairs weren't even there in real life. ;)
Yamato: You
Planes: Mosquitos
Anti Air Guns: Cheap Insect Killer that you bought in ebay
I had never really thought about how it was to be a sailor on Yamato during her last stand. This video really put into perspective how fucking terrifying it must have been to see 70k tons worth of steel roll over and sink
The ship's breaking up, with the turrets coming adrift, really shows the horrific reality of a warship's death. And, seriously, all that was through just one fish striking home? Whoever ordered that operation had to be homicidally deranged beyond all sense - the Japanese would have known what must happen to big ships without air cover after sinking Prince of Wales and Repulse.
Fun fact about the yamoto on every other battleship some of the battleships out there, whenever their main batteries fired whoever it fired whoever was right by the guns could have their eardrums blasted out. It was kind of the same with destroyers with 5 inch cannons. Paint was known to be ripped off the ship.
Amazing that the largest and most powerful warship at that time was also the most under utilized through out the war.
One of the only other times it was out it was beat by a fletcher class
Thank you for making these brilliant historical animations! These videos are always the highlight of my day.
I feel bad for watching these high quality animations for free.
Animations get better and better i really enjoy watching them, Good job!
Yarnhub is the best Thanks for making this story Yarnhub Yamato is my favourite battleship in the world :)
Operation Ten-Go definitely seemed wasteful from Ito’s perspective. Considering the amount of destruction caused by the aerial bombardments, naval losses, air losses, and US submarine warfare making it almost impossible to transport new supplies, resources like the Yamato shouldn’t be seen as expendable. The part about Yamato’s explosive cloud seen close to Japan and as a eerie foreshadowing for Hiroshima and Nagasaki is haunting to think about
Fun Fact: It is predicted that Yamato will be rebuilt in the year 2199 as a spaceship. The project is named "Star Blazers".
*UCHUU SENKAN YAMATOOOOOOO*
Why so far into the future?
@@thelmagreenwood1429 Because Japan has bad economy XD
@@thelmagreenwood1429 It’s called a _Space Battleship Yamato_ reference.
It is amazing how the biggest battleship in the war sunk without sinking a ship and only being in a couple of battles. All those resources wasted.
Being a pointless waste of resources that should never have been built is actually a WWII-era battleship thing in general. Even battleships with far more active careers (such as the Iowas) failed to justify themselves, being shoehorned into supporting roles that were already covered by other naval units at much less expenditure (and sometimes just tagging along without doing anything).
Yamato simply tends to get singled out for this much more systematic problem. She deserves the criticism, but so does pretty much everything else. A battleship is only justifiable (at least strategically) as the primary naval unit, and the moment carriers took over that role at the end of the 1930s they were no longer justified.
Don't forget about the fact it was fought off by a group of determind destroyers and spratic air attacks.
@@aidengriffin8377
The air attacks at Samar were much more of a problem for the Japanese than commonly assumed. The escort carriers (from three separate Taffy groups, not just Taffy 3) did actually have aerial torpedoes and other actually dangerous weapons aboard. They just didn’t have them loaded onto the aircraft when the battle started (and even then, this only applies to Taffy 3 and Taffy 1), which is where the false idea the American air attacks didn’t pose a threat at all came from. Later air attacks took place after the aircraft were rearmed and were legitimately dangerous. And the fact there were three Taffy units sending in airstrikes, not one, meant that the air attacks during Samar involved quite a lot of aircraft-especially towards the end of the battle.
In fact, two of the Japanese cruiser losses at Samar supposedly caused by surface action actually were the result of American air attacks.
Yamato sank the escort carrier Gambeir Bay and helped to sink the destroyers Johnston and Hoel a few months earlier during the naval battle off Samar, Yamato's first and only true naval action.
Thank you for posting this it made my birthday that much more special
Happy birthday!
I have watched your videos over and over again. They are very well made. Excellent work!!!
Great job on this short documentary!
With great respect to yarnhub for the great content and work you do. As for the great warship. What a sad end to a great ship that deserves better than what was her last action. To say I loved this anamaion is an understatement. Keep it up. A fan from southwestern MN for more than a year and half. Waiting for more content and videos.
It would be interesting to hear the backstory of Captain Aruga. How he became the captain of the Yamato. What an enormous honor that must have been.
Wooow.....that was fantastic. Excellent Job!
Sending the Yamato to the bottom of the ocean was the true payback for pearl.
I just thought of something.
"Giant battleships that could level my apartment in a single shell are cool and all, but when are we getting YarnCola?"
"There had better be an ice cream float flavor."