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I am from Japan but I live in Australia since 1957. I remember it was raining when I saw my father come home for only 1 hour. I was 14. We just stared at each other. He smiled for a second. My mother also stared. I knew to leave the room but I kept looking from behind the curtain. My father, Yamato mechanic, left quickly. Few days later we learned of his passing from that battle. My mother told me when I married that my father came to say goodbye that night. Only those words were spoken. They sat and ate together for that hour. My mother never cried. she never slept in her bed again until she died. Never moved from that old small home in Hataka. Died from the radiation years later. They are together I know in my heart. Soon I will see them together again.
I have been to the Yamato Museum and seen the 80 ft model (located in Hiroshima). It was an impressive site. Even though I was American, the tour guide (a former Yamato Crewman) was polite and very informative. It left me with a feeling of awe and a great love for the Japanese people and their nation.
The tour guide was a former Yamato crewman??? aam.. you're joking right!? Coz he got to have been 93+ years old.. Yeah, I don't want to call you a liar, but I guess I kinda am? Plz explain yourself so that we both can sleep better tonight..😅
***** Oh please don't use so much punctuation; your clearly superior country's education is intimidating me. You're not insecure at all, insulting random people on the internet!
I'm Japanese, and I think 1:40 ~ is very misleading. Japan never believed in the Yamato in her final mission. She only had fuel for one way, no aircarft to protect her. It was a Kamikaze mission. It was the last cry, knowing she would be sunk. If Yamato, the pride of the IJN, surrendered before any real action, it would have been an embarrassment to the navy.
Jun Shibata Thank you. The Yamamoto was, from what I've read, a source of Japanese National pride. Ironically the demise of the ship were by the archers of the day, the airplane.
@@fredricunderhill204 It was a source of pride, for sure. But Japan knew the aircraft game before anyone; It was Japan who created the first battlegroup centered around an aircraft carrier, after her battleship numbers were limited in the Washington treaty. The irony, is that while the Japanese proved the superiority of the aircraft, and demonstrated the foolishness of war ships operating without fighter cover by sinking Prince of Wales and Repulse in '42, by April '45, with their carrier forces destroyed and shore based air corps decimated, the IJN sent the Yamato to Okinawa without air cover ...where she met the same fate as the Prince of Wales.
Jun Shibata We agree. Yamamoto saw the strength and tactical value of carrier based aircraft as did U. S. General Billy Mitchell. However top brass are often opposed to changing tactics. After all, their tactics got them promoted 20 years ago. The attack on Pearl Harbor was shortened as the U. S. carriers were out to sea. By "archers" I reference the defeats of the Spartans to the Persians and later the Greeks, the English in 1066, ineffective artillery at Pickett's Charge and others. The IJN used all their "archers", submarines, type 93 torpedoes, kiaten torpedoes and kamikaze aircraft well. The USN were at a disadvantage until late 1942 into 1943 when Yamamoto's prediction and fear of American production ability and adaptive ability proved accurate.
@@georgelindley6752 Very possible as the sailors could have known the one-way, delaying of their action. However, there was little oil available to anyone. It would have taken a lot of favors to get that much fuel. Let's check with Jun Shibata. Jun, please.
Thondy Halomoan similar fate occurred to Bismarck with those pesky Swordfish but at least she actually squared off against other ships. Oh, then there was the Tirptiz🙄
The Yamato is and always will be my most favorite battleship of all time, and she is absolutely gorgeous. She's like the imperial star destroyer, Devistator, but on water. Even Vader would be very impressed.
"Yamato is the ancient name for Japan. It means 'Great Harmony'." What a fitting name for a 263 meters long behemoth, that shoots 460mm shells with the weight of a small car.
@@captjoe25 the length of the gerald r. ford class: roundabout 333meters, maybe they're longer than you expect? even the ww2 japanese carrier akagi (260m) or the cv-2, lexingtons length were quite similar/ longer than the yamato. btw, it's not a question of honor, it's just a matter of fact. and at the end it's obsolete. sure, even size matters. but only the balancing of armour, armament, speed, crew and competent leading, naval and military, makes a random ship a good, hopeful surviving ship.
I think you probably had meters mixed up with feet. You know how long 300 meters is? I've been to the USS IOWA and Yamato is close to the length of the IOWA. The IOWA is about the length of a football field about 260 meters more or less.
The Yamato has a special place in my heart since my late grandfather was an English teacher who tutored admiral Yamamato's children. Coincidentally, my ex's great uncle was onboard the Musashi when she sunk. He had some interesting stories about floating around in the shark infested waters. May they all rest in peace.
@@sloanNYC Modern day cargo ships make all naval ships look small. But to put things in better perspective, the Yamato was built in the late 1930s - early 1940s, but it has a displacement of 72,800 tons, more than TWICE as big as France largest current aircraft carrier, the Charles De Gaulle. The mighty & current British aircraft carrier, Queen Elizabeth --- with over 2 dozen F-35s and helicopters on it ---- only has a displacement of 65,000 tons! That means, while the Yamato is close to 100 years old, only the mighty Nimitz (97,000 ton) and Ford (100,000 ton) aircraft carrier classes beat it.
Why the electronic world is primarily controlled by the Asian market of communism and hate directed at the free world especially at America. Even with Americans monies in hand it still not enough to sooth the beast of anti American rhetoric. And my country pays again especially during our holidays. My country was in a state of shock due not being able to unload Asian goods quick enough. That hurts knowing at one time it was the other way around. We without conscience allowed are industrial wave of plenty to up and leave us empty handed...
+Captain Foxy the Pirate (Foxy the Pirate Fan) me too, it was soo sad :/ wish it didnt end that way, crappy ending for such a mighty ship, if it was to go down, it should be in a massive ship on ship battle heavily outnumbered, not on a air attack
The last true Battleship that went down screaming in a fight against other Battleships was Kirishima. The majority of them were either lost throughout the war by subs or airstrikes.
As a Naval Officer (US Navy) who took part in 118 combat missions over three wars, I have utmost respect for the people that I, politically, had to fight against. They were professional officers just like me fighting for a different ideology but they were professional officers, highly educated (I had a Masters at the time), and they were protecting their "way of life" or more likely... their families... just like I was doing on my own side. I despise the suffering and the fact that many books, narratives, and/or movies depict either one of us as the "good" or as the "bad" guys. Ciao, L
@@paulalexandre3358 Hi Paul I am not sure that I understand your comments - I saw my share of killing in my years of combat, it does not imply that I approve of it. Usually, the political/leading forces that declare wars are not the sailors/soldiers/airmen who will have to fight them or the civilians that will have to suffer them. There has to be a better way to resolve conflicts. I am by no means stating that some "maniacs" (regardless of allegiance) do not enjoy killing, torturing, etc. - they should be shot but many military and civilians are caught in the middle, Peace be with you, Ciao, L
I'm surprised they didn't mention that Yamato's main guns were so heavy, the Japanese had to design and built a specialized ship (Kashino) to transport it
@@fatcatthemechabuilder8637 well... there was a german ammunition carrier that could hold massive projectiles at the time, you'd just need an insanely upscaled version of it
In AA numbers she is in #1 in bb's Radar nope AA effectiveness nahh Size? That's given Guns? Given Detection? Given lol Crew members? In bb's given Armor? Given Conclusion? Idk hahahahhah
the sinking of the Yamato, Bismarck, Tirpitz and Hood during WW2, accounted for over 8,000 lives, "gone in seconds", R.I.P. to all of those brave souls.
@@paullewis2413 Musashi was quite literally the little sister though. No disrespect to her but she weighed nearly 1000 tons less, and had less AA protection. She was an amazing fortress in her own right but shes not quite Yamato just as Missouri might be the more celebrated but shes not Iowa.
1:13 was really the part of where I felt the power because the legendary Yamato Sailed off to fight her last battle because of the music was chilling, I wish she could of been preserved and then be a museum, imagine what a sight it would be to see her!!!!
I wonder how she is so fast while in world of warships almost all battleships are slow and she fired her guns so fast while all the battleships in wow are reloading so slow while Yamato is fast reloading if you see that in battle in wow E M O T I O N A L D A M A G E
When the pointless death of 4000 men, combined with the destruction of a great ship sent on a one-way kamikaze mission, is perceived as glorious . . . we can only thank our lucky stars -- and the gallantry of the Allied fighters -- that Japan did not succeed in building its empire.
WOW videos on Naval ships is the best quality of any other videos I've seen. I'm really suprised more content creators and companies haven't went this route instead of just showing old grainy photos with an old video interview in the background
As a Navy and Vietnam combat veteran I enjoy the education every time I see one of these 'gems'. The one thing I would like to see is a documentary on the inner workings of these ships; from the galley to the living compartments, during the time of replenishments and battles (like 'Das Boot'), etc,.
I'd also be interested in documentaries about the inner workings and life onboard such ships. Too many feature the mechanical, but forget the human side of the story. I've seen a few videos posted by sailors showing the inside, and that architecture is something to behold.
@@MajorWolfgangHochstetter Here corrected. Sorry. French tends to consider that sailors in the navy are still soldiers. But since this was about US ships, I guess you'd be right.
I visited the Yamato museum in Kure in 2015, it was well worth it! The detail on the model is incredible and there were also some relics salvaged from the original ship on display.
I think they really could have fit it in though. Not many people know anything about Musashi and it was a long video to explain that Yamato sailed out and immediately got torped to death. It was great and entertaining, but they could have explained Musashi as well.
+Dymitry The Gamer Formula is: {5 heavy CV + 4 Light CV | 227 planes from WoWP x 2 waves of attack - No Air Interceptor for the Yamato WoWS Player = Yamato: What a fucking Matchmaking...} lol
That's an island in itself. Some people truly don't understand the sheer size of the Yamato 💀 It took 4 aircraft carriers and about 250 planes to take her down
386 planes to take her down. There was a lot more aircraft than the video described. Yamato also took far more damage than described in the video, around 6-7 bombs and 11-13 torpedoes. Her sistership Musashi took 17 bombs and 19-20 torpedoes.
The video itself is very cheap, basically a hype video for a ship to get you excited about it and play the game. But I don't think there was any correct information in that video on it besides the name... Actually the name translation was also wrong... Also calling it "the largest battleship" is a bit of a stretch... I mean the largest battle ship in history is the US Nimitz class Aircraft carrier, I guess you technically can't call it a battle ship, you need to technically have guns for it to call it a battle ship... but I mean it's a war ship, and you use it in battles, just not a close range, but long range ( range of an aircraft on that ship) ,but still a bit manipulative in my eyes...
@@korana6308 A battleship is not simply "a ship meant for battle", it is a large warship equipped with powerful guns and armor, of which Yamato was the largest of. These types of warships haven't been built since the 1940s due to aircraft carriers, destroyers, and submarines making them obsolete.
@@metaknight115 I understand that concept , hence why I mentioned it , if you actually read my original message. Though I can easily challenge those definitions. As technically the largest battle ship that I personally admire is Nimitz Class , aircraft carrier. And after that there are Russian battleships of Orlan class i. e. "Pyotr Velikij" battleship as it's technically more versatile and more powerful and more advanced than Yamato... Only then you could place Yamato at the third place... At least for me. It's a nice ship and concept, but nothing about it speaks " the best" , just a large battle ship with big conventional caliber guns... It's not even the most guns as Manowar type class battle ships had more guns than Yamato... In my classification of large cool ships it would definitely trail at like 4th or 5th place, again not impressive to me as other battle ships, yet in that video they somehow hyped it up like it was the best, when in fact it didn't do anything at all and failed miserably, some nice features on a large ship, but nothing impressive.
The pinnacle of battleship design is an understatement. Remember that it was designed with slide rules in 1935 or thereabouts. That was 85 years ago. Now it is missiles and aircraft.
That was an amazing documentary. The CG has to be some of the best used in a war documentary, and makes perfect sense since Wargaming already has the assets from the game, but the rest of the interviews and editing are very good as well. I know I am far more interested in giving them money seeing quality things like this coming out.
What a true marvel of engineering. Simply breathtaking that the Japanese could build such a titan with the technology of the time. It really is sad to see such a thing be destroyed
No one here seems to care that 3000 sailors lost their lives on that flagship due to the inability of the Japanese military to face reality. Japan lost its ability to wage war yet its leaders continued killing their proud people anyway in useless campaigns such as this. You may be sad that ship is gone. I am glad it is.
You realize that by releasing this you get people excited to play Yamato. Then they join the game and realise they will need to grind for 10,000 hours to get tier X... and they quit.
@@alphabeta2589 But then gets sat on by CVs, thus why I deleted WoWs permanently, it took 11 carriers and carrier escorts to sink her irl, but WoWs says otherwise.
Would have loved the opportunity. The highest achievement in Japanese society at that time was to fight and die in battle in defense of one's bloodline, people and nation. Millions of ancestral spirits were with the sailors before they died guiding them into the afterlife.
@ because the narration sounds so stupid it's almost funny. imagine a ship getting with that much bombs and torpedoes before firing a single AA gun. Why not fire the AA guns as soon as there are enemy aircraft in range? that's what the wording of the narration sounds like.
@@deadby15 Just please remove Richelieu why would a normal minded designer just stick two freaking double turret together and call it a quad-turret... French designers are no good, navy and army alike. Just look at AMX-40 from WWII. Like wtf
Four Yamato-class battleships were planned; the IJN Yamato herself, the second IJN Musashi, the third IJN Shinano, and the fourth known as IJN Kii. Yamato and Musashi were completed, the Shinano was converted into a support aircraft carrier, and the fourth’s hull was started but never completed.
Wow... You guys have totally and truly filled the void that History Channel left us when they decided to ditch REAL history and go all in on "reality non-history" crap. I hope you keep up the good work with your videos.
They haven't though. The end at least is completely false, she made it to her destination, beached herself and fired everything she had as intended. It was a kamikaze mission. She sank doing exactly what she was ordered to do
Yamato and her whole crew passed away protecting their beloved country. They died like a true samurai, standing alone in front of thousands of enemies.
She was fleeing home and effectively did nothing to defend the homeland. The part about standing alone in front of thousands of enemies is true though, but no, she didn't get to protect anything. Very expensive, outdated, and underused.
Wonderful documentary, never imagined a official channel for a Game would make something like this. I have played the game years before but I still remember it was amazing.
+Tiberius16 Saw the flashes and heard the thunder of the Missouri and the Wisconsin in Desert Storm. Came home with the Wisconsin and got to see a lot of her. Sweet memories, for sure.
I visited the Yamato Museum in Kure, where the model shown here is housed, along with a history of the shipyard during the war. This makes for a nice half-day trip from Hiroshima.
To be honest, the explosion pictured here when Yamoto capsized doesn't do it justice. The Yamoto's explosion had a cloud 6 KILOMETERS high (3 .7 miles) in height, and was seen 160 KM (99 miles) away.
@@omargonzales3 It's a fascinating typo for 'deflagration' which is a "subsonic combustion propagating through heat transfer; hot burning material heats the next layer of cold material and ignites it.". But deflagretation might be a mixture of vegetation and deflagration, so it would be like a crop of jalapenos which would undergo subsonic combustions propagating through your colon with hot burning material.
When you see a Yamato in your game “Only target the Yamato, nothing else... at... all...” Aircraft carriers see that: *10 secs later* 2639 planes in the air heading towards Yamato
Yes I watched the documentary on the Iowa class after watching the Yamato, 1940's 33knots SHIT ME. That would be a laugh today, also the Iowa class I believe was "Panamax" sized and as such had true global strike capacity, awesome ships.
@@braddockgrimsley232 Iowa weighs 14000 tonnes less than Yamato at full load though, and she's only faster by 6 knots. You can't really compare their top speeds like that.
Kongo class battlecruisers, as far as I know, are the only Dreadnoughts who can reach speeds over 29 knots. I know that the Germans also had high speed battlecruiser Dreadnoughts, and Prinz Eitel Friedrich was one of them.
hereLiesThisTroper+ i know that. A fubuki is towing a yamato near the shore and trying to make it sail but cant cuz yamato said she was hungry so it did not go anywhere
The battleship Yamato... was a ship of the samurai of the sea... knew it would be sunk while upholding Bushido... and headed to the battlefield to defend Japan…
Mind you a well aimed bloody great broadside from a battleships' main armament straight at an aircraft carrier wouldn't do it a lot of good would it? (Not that it is going to happen)
They didn't have much choice. Their carriers had been destroyed and it was either a matter of throw it into battle and hope for the best or keep it in port and eventually get overrun.
@Inti Cheveyo Okay..............USN GR Ford battlegroup has been patiently waiting for 6 days to "have that private talk" out in the middle of the ocean. Russian battleship is struggling to suppress engine fires in order to get out of port. Tugboat captains that are moving the battleship are praying to Stalin that the tsar doesn't explode.
+Toprak özdemir oh I know, but if we put it at $6 billion, when we reach it, people will just be like "fuck it, let's just keep going" and we'll get to $8 billion quicker
It would take a lot more then that! How about a Trillion? Don't tell the GOP, they love to cut government revenues and spend like crazy on the military!!
I can't imagine how the crew of yamato felt when looking up to see the sky full of American planes...and knowing that they couldn't do a thing to stop them.
Lazurkri In my opinion, it’s worse than that. They had so many AA guns, and were on the legendary Yamato, but there were so many planes that their efforts seemed futile. I feel like the knowledge that anything you can do won’t stop the inevitable is worse than thinking that there’s nothing you can do to stop the inevitable
Emperor Kyurem, even the 18 inch main armament on the Yamato could fire anti-aircraft Sanshiki-dan shells. They weighed 2998 pounds, and burst at the set range (adjustable before fitting fuse) and sending 900 incendiary tubes and 600 steel stays forward in a 20 degree cone after exploding.
It's a shame Japan can't rebuild her for historical and educational purposes. For an enemy ship Yamato and Musashi were beyond impressive. I really want to go to that museum some day.
Not only money, but also resources too. If only Yamato (or Musashi) was captured instead of destroying it. And even if it was captured, whether it'll become a museum ship or a Target Ship in Nuclear Test such as Operation Crossroads, for a largest battleship.
Germany and Japan both had these extremely powerful Battleships that outclassed anything the allies could throw at them. But both made the same mistake. They sent them out with only a small escort. Bismarck only had 1 heavy Cruiser, and Yamato only had a small handful of escorts. Imagine what they could have done in the battles that destroyed them had they had a full strike force with Subs, Destroyers, and Cruisers.
First of all idk if Japan at that time could really afford to give yamato a large escort anyways and 2nd of all dont imagine anything, regardless of the escorts (which were if anything only usefull against submarines) the yamato would have all perished the same way by the US carrier planes
Wrong ! Krieg Marine wasn't at all ready ! Prinz Eugen and Bismarck were Nazi's most powerful battleships but weren't able to fight a modern warfare with aircraft coming from a much farther range.
more like air support is needed than submarine, destroyers and cruisers. the yamato has i think around 9 ships with her. i dont think it is possible to win this air raid without any air support when they are against 11 aircraft carriers
Bismarck was not as powerful as popular media makes her out to be. She was outclassed in firepower by battleships like Colorado, Nelson, and Nagato, and outclassed in armor by ships like Richelieu, Nelson, and King George V
A year ago when I started playing that game (that I do my best not to mention to often around WoWS players), I thought I had developed an interest in warships and naval history as a result of some misguided delusion. It turns out, odd as it may be, it wasn't destructive, nor was it anything new. I recently found an encyclopedia of ships dating back to 95, when I was in kindergarden. I grew up visiting the Massachusetts every summer and hearing stories of the Axis ships from those who fought them. After I started playing, I came to a point where I decided to admit it to my father, and feared that he wouldn't approve of me playing due to the nature and content of it. It turns out he built several ship models in his youth including Bismarck and Missouri, but his pride and joy above all others was Yamato, which he considered the most beautiful battleship ever built. He also inadvertently inspired my love of anime. So I've always had this connection. It just took an unlikely source to remind me of it. Ever since I've had this rediscovery of the love I had as a kid playing on the decks of my ships, like I understand them better for walking a mile in their enemies' shoes.
Thank you very much for the audio track in Brazilian Portuguese, I love Wargaming's work I always learn with WOWS and Naval Legends about naval forces from WW and WW2.
The name "Yamato" is one of the old name of Japan, and she literally was the symbol of Japan. She went down to the dark and deep sea, and with this affair, we've lost to America. Japan was born again and completely be obedience to America. But most of Japanese remember the tragic story of Yamato, and secretly desire the reborn of her. "Space Battle Ship Yamato" is one of the most popular anime in Japan. In this anime, Yamato was rebuilt as a space battle ship that would save the earth. This anime stands for the wish of Japanese.
@@voltgaming2213 Because Japan is no longer an empire, and with the U.S. providing military protection for Japan, they don't really need a massive military force anymore. That's why their military is called a 'self defense force' now. They still have some damn cool homemade jet fighters for the JASDF though.
All these Bismarck fanboys in the comments... I hope you all realize that a fight with either Yamato or Iowa would result in the complete and utter destruction of Bismarck. It would require a battleship such as Iowa or Montana to even stand up to Yamato. The Bismarck was puny compared to Yamato.
I understand the intent of the final mission of the Yamato was that she would be beached and act as an artillery battery to deter the invading allies, but she never made it to her destination. It was always a one-way mission.
She actually did though. This documentary is incorrect. She made it to the island, she made her last stand beached firing everything she had as intended. It was a one way kamikaze mission.
@@theryanplant that's good to know. The samurai spirit. I understand also that she was finished off after Allied Helldivers, originally a much maligned aircraft, knocked out her anti-air defenses with their bombing raids, opening the door for the torpedo bombers to follow. A remarkable ship, the Yamato. I also see a parallel with the end of the Bismarck. where her destruction was assisted by the hit on her rudder by an English Swordfish bomber, a biplane that was way out of date at the start of World War Two.
My dad was always big in WWII history. He never got into the Japanese side (for obvious reasons) and I've never seen anything about the Yamato until now. But upon finding this, GOD I'M IN LOVE WITH JAPANESE BATTLESHIPS. That thing was terrifying looking. Too bad (or is it?) that it was so slow and inefficient.
It's actually the opposite: when your Yamato went AFK for a few minutes and then when you logged in again, you found your braindead team got rekt and you are the last BB left.
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I am from Japan but I live in Australia since 1957. I remember it was raining when I saw my father come home for only 1 hour. I was 14. We just stared at each other. He smiled for a second. My mother also stared. I knew to leave the room but I kept looking from behind the curtain. My father, Yamato mechanic, left quickly. Few days later we learned of his passing from that battle. My mother told me when I married that my father came to say goodbye that night. Only those words were spoken. They sat and ate together for that hour. My mother never cried. she never slept in her bed again until she died. Never moved from that old small home in Hataka. Died from the radiation years later. They are together I know in my heart. Soon I will see them together again.
You're father died like a true Samurai, even at impossible odds your father and Yamato protected the country they loved
Your story touches my heart. I know that you will see your mother and father again, together.
Respect and best wishes from India
Its sad story :(
With best wishes from Canada.
When video game makers have better historical documentaries than the history channel has had in over a decade.....
DaCrazyDingo so you’re saying people getting ripped off by a pawn shop isn’t history?
@@travisstowe485 yeah, almost like the history channel is due for a name change to "the reality TV channel" or something. Lol
@@travisstowe485 its a history for the shops reviews
Damn shame ain't it
Ain't that the truth. Well stated.
I have been to the Yamato Museum and seen the 80 ft model (located in Hiroshima). It was an impressive site. Even though I was American, the tour guide (a former Yamato Crewman) was polite and very informative. It left me with a feeling of awe and a great love for the Japanese people and their nation.
The tour guide was a former Yamato crewman??? aam.. you're joking right!? Coz he got to have been 93+ years old.. Yeah, I don't want to call you a liar, but I guess I kinda am? Plz explain yourself so that we both can sleep better tonight..😅
@@Superknullisch The poster could have visited a long time ago, there were a couple of hundred or so survivors.
@@Superknullisch if that keeps you up at night, you must have a very weak disposition
But did you see the exhibit upstairs about the Space Battleship Yamato? :)
Gintama hahaha
The Yamato museum is one of the most incredible places I've ever seen.
Wargaming is teaching me more history than the History channel would hope to.
Wargaming is teaching me more history than my history teacher D:
Mirza Ajanovic My most memorable history teacher was kind of cool. He'd organize after school sessions where we'd play Axis & Allies and such.
+InfernalDalek history channel is just live action drama and dat tv shows now too sadly and you know it
***** Oh please don't use so much punctuation; your clearly superior country's education is intimidating me. You're not insecure at all, insulting random people on the internet!
+InfernalDalek for me to, we need the history channel that we loved years ago ,
I'm Japanese, and I think 1:40 ~ is very misleading. Japan never believed in the Yamato in her final mission. She only had fuel for one way, no aircarft to protect her. It was a Kamikaze mission. It was the last cry, knowing she would be sunk.
If Yamato, the pride of the IJN, surrendered before any real action, it would have been an embarrassment to the navy.
Jun Shibata
Thank you. The Yamamoto was, from what I've read, a source of Japanese National pride. Ironically the demise of the ship were by the archers of the day, the airplane.
@@fredricunderhill204 It was a source of pride, for sure. But Japan knew the aircraft game before anyone; It was Japan who created the first battlegroup centered around an aircraft carrier, after her battleship numbers were limited in the Washington treaty.
The irony, is that while the Japanese proved the superiority of the aircraft, and demonstrated the foolishness of war ships operating without fighter cover by sinking Prince of Wales and Repulse in '42, by April '45, with their carrier forces destroyed and shore based air corps decimated, the IJN sent the Yamato to Okinawa without air cover ...where she met the same fate as the Prince of Wales.
Jun Shibata
We agree. Yamamoto saw the strength and tactical value of carrier based aircraft as did U. S. General Billy Mitchell. However top brass are often opposed to changing tactics. After all, their tactics got them promoted 20 years ago. The attack on Pearl Harbor was shortened as the U. S. carriers were out to sea.
By "archers" I reference the defeats of the Spartans to the Persians and later the Greeks, the English in 1066, ineffective artillery at Pickett's Charge and others.
The IJN used all their "archers", submarines, type 93 torpedoes, kiaten torpedoes and kamikaze aircraft well. The USN were at a disadvantage until late 1942 into 1943 when Yamamoto's prediction and fear of American production ability and adaptive ability proved accurate.
I heard the Japanese refuelling crew refused the order for half capacity and gave the Yamato full fuel.
@@georgelindley6752
Very possible as the sailors could have known the one-way, delaying of their action. However, there was little oil available to anyone. It would have taken a lot of favors to get that much fuel. Let's check with Jun Shibata. Jun, please.
Yamato, right ship, wrong time
One of the most beautiful battleships ever created
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Oh thank you
Thondy Halomoan similar fate occurred to Bismarck with those pesky Swordfish but at least she actually squared off against other ships.
Oh, then there was the Tirptiz🙄
Right ship, wrong commander.. Yamato didn't end up at the bottom by itself..
The Yamato is and always will be my most favorite battleship of all time, and she is absolutely gorgeous. She's like the imperial star destroyer, Devistator, but on water. Even Vader would be very impressed.
Vader can visit it on the bottom of the Pacific! 🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣
"Yamato is the ancient name for Japan. It means 'Great Harmony'."
What a fitting name for a 263 meters long behemoth, that shoots 460mm shells with the weight of a small car.
Hahahh wtf
263 meters long??? I don't think so. Thats longer than American modern Aircraft Carriers.
@@captjoe25 the length of the gerald r. ford class: roundabout 333meters, maybe they're longer than you expect?
even the ww2 japanese carrier akagi (260m) or the cv-2, lexingtons length were quite similar/ longer than the yamato.
btw, it's not a question of honor, it's just a matter of fact.
and at the end it's obsolete. sure, even size matters. but only the balancing of armour, armament, speed, crew and competent leading, naval and military, makes a random ship a good, hopeful surviving ship.
I think you probably had meters mixed up with feet. You know how long 300 meters is? I've been to the USS IOWA and Yamato is close to the length of the IOWA. The IOWA is about the length of a football field about 260 meters more or less.
@@NeunExtraleben , correction , yamato is about 270 meters or a most 3 football fields in length slightly longer than the USS IOWA.
The Yamato has a special place in my heart since my late grandfather was an English teacher who tutored admiral Yamamato's children. Coincidentally, my ex's great uncle was onboard the Musashi when she sunk. He had some interesting stories about floating around in the shark infested waters. May they all rest in peace.
@@foobarmaximus3506 care to share the weed and drugs?
@@foobarmaximus3506 lmao
They can't be resting in peace they committed so many atrocities
Imagine if Battleship Yamato survived the war. It would be one heck of a site to see in person.
Cargo Ships make it look small now. It's insane.
I was thinking the same thing. I'd love to see that huge model. She was a magnificently beautiful battleship.
Like when Yamato survive this it's very probably that the US navy destroy it.
@@sloanNYC Modern day cargo ships make all naval ships look small. But to put things in better perspective, the Yamato was built in the late 1930s - early 1940s, but it has a displacement of 72,800 tons, more than TWICE as big as France largest current aircraft carrier, the Charles De Gaulle.
The mighty & current British aircraft carrier, Queen Elizabeth --- with over 2 dozen F-35s and helicopters on it ---- only has a displacement of 65,000 tons! That means, while the Yamato is close to 100 years old, only the mighty Nimitz (97,000 ton) and Ford (100,000 ton) aircraft carrier classes beat it.
Paul Allen would have bought it.
The fact that this documentay is made by a videogame company is just amazing.
Why the electronic world is primarily controlled by the Asian market of communism and hate directed at the free world especially at America. Even with Americans monies in hand it still not enough to sooth the beast of anti American rhetoric. And my country pays again especially during our holidays. My country was in a state of shock due not being able to unload Asian goods quick enough. That hurts knowing at one time it was the other way around. We without conscience allowed are industrial wave of plenty to up and leave us empty handed...
You guys should seriously consider growing this Naval Legends series. Its just brilliant!!
***** this shit should be on the history channel
***** i almost cried when i saw Yamato sinking.
+Raptor0348 no, they would have to turn it into a crappy reality show to put it on "history" channel.
+Captain Foxy the Pirate (Foxy the Pirate Fan) me too, it was soo sad :/ wish it didnt end that way, crappy ending for such a mighty ship, if it was to go down, it should be in a massive ship on ship battle heavily outnumbered, not on a air attack
The last true Battleship that went down screaming in a fight against other Battleships was Kirishima. The majority of them were either lost throughout the war by subs or airstrikes.
As a Naval Officer (US Navy) who took part in 118 combat missions over three wars, I have utmost respect for the people that I, politically, had to fight against. They were professional officers just like me fighting for a different ideology but they were professional officers, highly educated (I had a Masters at the time), and they were protecting their "way of life" or more likely... their families... just like I was doing on my own side.
I despise the suffering and the fact that many books, narratives, and/or movies depict either one of us as the "good" or as the "bad" guys.
Ciao, L
lancelot1953 So unit 731 was perfectly fine, right? Yeah, people can do whatever they want as long as they have families!
@@paulalexandre3358 Hi Paul I am not sure that I understand your comments - I saw my share of killing in my years of combat, it does not imply that I approve of it.
Usually, the political/leading forces that declare wars are not the sailors/soldiers/airmen who will have to fight them or the civilians that will have to suffer them.
There has to be a better way to resolve conflicts. I am by no means stating that some "maniacs" (regardless of allegiance) do not enjoy killing, torturing, etc. - they should be shot but many military and civilians are caught in the middle, Peace be with you, Ciao, L
lancelot1953 I guess I do agree with you. I mistook your statement as a denial that the Japanese did anything wrong, my mistake.
lancelot1953
BOO HOP...
Is there bad guys and good guys in war ? Who decided which one good or bad?
I totally agree with you sir.
I'm surprised they didn't mention that Yamato's main guns were so heavy, the Japanese had to design and built a specialized ship (Kashino) to transport it
IKR no land vehicle that time could carry yamatos main guns
Also kashino best cow wife
@@fatcatthemechabuilder8637 well... there was a german ammunition carrier that could hold massive projectiles at the time, you'd just need an insanely upscaled version of it
So unbelievably fascinating that so much metal and weight can actually float if it's heavier than the water it displaces. Wow
in about 200 years this ship will be raised and have shock cannons and be able to go into warp in space
Dion SneezitLP Let's not forget the overpowered cannon that is capable of destroying continents...
+Dion SneezitLP We'll call it.. Space BattleShip Yamato!!
And we begin the glorious fight against Dessler and the many aliens that don't like us...
Dion SneezitLP LDP lawmakers aim to raise battleship Yamato wreckage - www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/28/national/history/ldp-lawmakers-aim-raise-battleship-yamato-wreckage/
lol! Now we just need some aliens to start a war with.
Hands down the most beautiful battleship ever built.
i dont know about that she is in the top 15 for sure
i dont know top 3 but that is just my opinion
In AA numbers she is in #1 in bb's
Radar nope
AA effectiveness nahh
Size? That's given
Guns? Given
Detection? Given lol
Crew members? In bb's given
Armor? Given
Conclusion? Idk hahahahhah
Novizio Novizio she’s part of the big 7 so yea, kinda expect it to be in the top 3
Poidachi wait which bb is number one in aa
the sinking of the Yamato, Bismarck, Tirpitz and Hood during WW2,
accounted for over 8,000 lives, "gone in seconds", R.I.P. to all of those brave souls.
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Yeah F but
Are you forgetting about economy rip?
Allies and lies ..truths about the corporation$.and secrets in trade during ww2.
@@billyengerson1242 ya found some good bud over there Cleatus?
Yamato ... It's a symbol of the great warship cannonism that battleship lovers in this world once know.
The Yamato museum is impressive. You walk in and around the corner is a massive model of the ship.
For military and naval nerds, many many ships are loved and highly regarded, but few hold such reverence as Yamato, Iowa and Bismark.
I am one such naval nerd, and I'm proud!
I'd add the Hood to that list.
Why is Mushashi always ignored? She was the sister ship to Yamato.
@@paullewis2413 Musashi was quite literally the little sister though. No disrespect to her but she weighed nearly 1000 tons less, and had less AA protection. She was an amazing fortress in her own right but shes not quite Yamato just as Missouri might be the more celebrated but shes not Iowa.
Iowa didn't do shit in the war lol, next
The level of craftsmanship that created this monster was ahead of it's time.
i once visit the kure yamato museum.it was awesome,consider my late great grandfather was a radio officer in the yamato
Then it must have been an honor to visit the Kure Yamato Museum
it must feel legendary!
Up your warrior heritage
That's super cool
very nice
I love that theme that plays when they talk about the specs of the ships.
Future war-gothic Storm
thanks
Павел Л and what's the name of that sad song when the Yamaro is leaving port?
Imperial Japan: *Makes the largest battleship named Yamato
Modern Japan: *T H I C C Shipgirl named Yamato*
no pls i almost smashed dad's laptop
Never will happen that is not Japan ask the americans
Treat a thing like a human
Imperial Japan: *Cuts off neck bones**
Modern Japan: **BONER ENHANCER**
Hey, Remake of Space battleship Yamato is still worthy to be called Yamato relative lol
So not all of it are shipgirl
1:13 was really the part of where I felt the power because the legendary Yamato Sailed off to fight her last battle because of the music was chilling, I wish she could of been preserved and then be a museum, imagine what a sight it would be to see her!!!!
I wonder how she is so fast while in world of warships almost all battleships are slow and she fired her guns so fast while all the battleships in wow are reloading so slow while Yamato is fast reloading if you see that in battle in wow E M O T I O N A L D A M A G E
@@milomoli2830 are you really questioning real life reloading based on a arcade game?
History channel: *”Aliens”*
WargamingNet: *”War”*
Rasipalsn
Anime: flying space battleship with moon Busting capabilities and kicks alien ass.
Both: "Alien War"
Hey Shaggy where is scooby?
Give it 5-15yrs... the "Alien" info will increase in it's intrigue and relevance.
Yamato battleship: Life like a king, Leave as a legend
When the pointless death of 4000 men, combined with the destruction of a great ship sent on a one-way kamikaze mission, is perceived as glorious . . . we can only thank our lucky stars -- and the gallantry of the Allied fighters -- that Japan did not succeed in building its empire.
@@johntechwriter but, the Pearl Harbour is weakened as the result. Yamato didn't die in vain.
@@dreoutcasting4415 and the Americans repaired and replace the losses after the attack like 4-5 months lmao
How many other ships destroyed?
Even Yamato was sunk, but still, LEGENDS NEVER DIE!!!
Face to face combat with Yamato is like ticket for heaven
But you aren't sure if you are going to heaven .
Not if youre a swarm of seaplanes
Air attack that´s fair fight. FACE TO FACE YAMATO WAS KING
I like how they refer to Yamato as "she"
Tell to that to the Iowa class battleships lol
WOW videos on Naval ships is the best quality of any other videos I've seen. I'm really suprised more content creators and companies haven't went this route instead of just showing old grainy photos with an old video interview in the background
As a Navy and Vietnam combat veteran I enjoy the education every time I see one of these 'gems'. The one thing I would like to see is a documentary on the inner workings of these ships; from the galley to the living compartments, during the time of replenishments and battles (like 'Das Boot'), etc,.
I can't imagine the horrors of that war and the mental aftermath. I hope you found peace
I'd also be interested in documentaries about the inner workings and life onboard such ships. Too many feature the mechanical, but forget the human side of the story. I've seen a few videos posted by sailors showing the inside, and that architecture is something to behold.
@@xunk16 'Sailors' not soldiers! Just sayin'.
@@MajorWolfgangHochstetter Here corrected. Sorry. French tends to consider that sailors in the navy are still soldiers. But since this was about US ships, I guess you'd be right.
@@xunk16 As a Navy veteran, I know I am! No disrespect intended!
That scale model of the ship is incredible.
As a teenager I helped my brother build a model of Yamato. Truly a beautiful ship.
I visited the Yamato museum in Kure in 2015, it was well worth it! The detail on the model is incredible and there were also some relics salvaged from the original ship on display.
三笠のある地元に住んでて、軍艦好きで、WoTは元からやってたけどWoWS出た時は凄いワクワクした
Wargamingが細かい所まで考証して大和を作ってくれて日本人として艦船好きとしてほんとに嬉しいわ
Wish the video talked more about Musashi in regards to the death of them both, Musashi took an absurd amount of damage before going.
IJN Nagato Still helping IJN Mutsu recover from her turret explosion?
IJN Nagato it is called navel legends yamato not navel legends yamato and musashi so ya
I think they really could have fit it in though. Not many people know anything about Musashi and it was a long video to explain that Yamato sailed out and immediately got torped to death. It was great and entertaining, but they could have explained Musashi as well.
Musashi's death was overshadowed by the Battle of Samar next day. It never did get much attention. One would expect more.
They sunk Musashi with more ammunition is because they haven't experience against Yamato class.
227 planes vs Yamato.....fix matchmatching XD
+Dymitry the gamer LOL!!!!!!!!.........
+Dymitry The Gamer Formula is: {5 heavy CV + 4 Light CV | 227 planes from WoWP x 2 waves of attack - No Air Interceptor for the Yamato WoWS Player = Yamato: What a fucking Matchmaking...} lol
Well 227 planes for 8 Ships including Yamato.
Nathan Peterson Still unbalanced XDD
Good luck dodging them torps
Yamato: the battleship so massive the model is bigger than a destroyer
That's an island in itself. Some people truly don't understand the sheer size of the Yamato 💀
It took 4 aircraft carriers and about 250 planes to take her down
386 planes to take her down. There was a lot more aircraft than the video described. Yamato also took far more damage than described in the video, around 6-7 bombs and 11-13 torpedoes. Her sistership Musashi took 17 bombs and 19-20 torpedoes.
The video itself is very cheap, basically a hype video for a ship to get you excited about it and play the game. But I don't think there was any correct information in that video on it besides the name... Actually the name translation was also wrong... Also calling it "the largest battleship" is a bit of a stretch... I mean the largest battle ship in history is the US Nimitz class Aircraft carrier, I guess you technically can't call it a battle ship, you need to technically have guns for it to call it a battle ship... but I mean it's a war ship, and you use it in battles, just not a close range, but long range ( range of an aircraft on that ship) ,but still a bit manipulative in my eyes...
@@korana6308 A battleship is not simply "a ship meant for battle", it is a large warship equipped with powerful guns and armor, of which Yamato was the largest of. These types of warships haven't been built since the 1940s due to aircraft carriers, destroyers, and submarines making them obsolete.
@@metaknight115 I understand that concept , hence why I mentioned it , if you actually read my original message. Though I can easily challenge those definitions. As technically the largest battle ship that I personally admire is Nimitz Class , aircraft carrier. And after that there are Russian battleships of Orlan class i. e. "Pyotr Velikij" battleship as it's technically more versatile and more powerful and more advanced than Yamato... Only then you could place Yamato at the third place... At least for me. It's a nice ship and concept, but nothing about it speaks " the best" , just a large battle ship with big conventional caliber guns... It's not even the most guns as Manowar type class battle ships had more guns than Yamato... In my classification of large cool ships it would definitely trail at like 4th or 5th place, again not impressive to me as other battle ships, yet in that video they somehow hyped it up like it was the best, when in fact it didn't do anything at all and failed miserably, some nice features on a large ship, but nothing impressive.
@@metaknight115 when we dropped little boy they understood, when we dropped fatman they surrendered
Fun fact, you could literally die of shockwaves by just standing near the main cannon when it fires.
I mean, most battleships are like that too tho
But this one is literally a big ass batteries.
Thats why they had covered anti aircraft batteries. The blasts from the 18” guns were killing the AA crews.
@@Ronin12530 AA? American Airlines Crew????
@Opecuted damn
@Phagnabot gamer oh
The pinnacle of battleship design is an understatement. Remember that it was designed with slide rules in 1935 or thereabouts. That was 85 years ago. Now it is missiles and aircraft.
she's still the mightiest battleship of her time, and i still give her wreckage alot of respect and her creation
Andre McGoo Against 200 planes any battleship is toast. Yamato still was the mightiest battleship.
if i have a time to travel in japan i eagerly want to visit the yamato museum it's a holy grail for me
That was an amazing documentary. The CG has to be some of the best used in a war documentary, and makes perfect sense since Wargaming already has the assets from the game, but the rest of the interviews and editing are very good as well. I know I am far more interested in giving them money seeing quality things like this coming out.
What a true marvel of engineering. Simply breathtaking that the Japanese could build such a titan with the technology of the time.
It really is sad to see such a thing be destroyed
No one here seems to care that 3000 sailors lost their lives on that flagship due to the inability of the Japanese military to face reality. Japan lost its ability to wage war yet its leaders continued killing their proud people anyway in useless campaigns such as this.
You may be sad that ship is gone. I am glad it is.
@@michaeldellacava there will always be people getting angry over Japan like this, lol.
@@michaeldellacava They didn't kill them. The US did, dumbass
@@michaeldellacava Not japan but old japan kid
@@wa-bu3ke use your brain
seems to me that the word "unsinkable" is actually a curse. titanic, bismarck, yamato, all "unsinkable" ships. where are they now?
at the bottom sir.. at the bottom.... true look
Enterprise proved to be "unsinkable" if there is such a thing.
Sup floor gang!!
Constitution also.
*cough* IJN Yukikaze *cough*
You realize that by releasing this you get people excited to play Yamato. Then they join the game and realise they will need to grind for 10,000 hours to get tier X... and they quit.
But in tier X the yamato whoops montanas A## off.
@@alphabeta2589 But then gets sat on by CVs, thus why I deleted WoWs permanently, it took 11 carriers and carrier escorts to sink her irl, but WoWs says otherwise.
@@ProjectLeviathan Yea true.The air defense is garbage
literal GARBAGE
@@alphabeta2589 Every ship in WoWs has garbage AAA.
Video game channel : Historical facts
History channel : Ancient Alien Astronauts !!
@truthiness 63 that knife making show has gone absolute shit.
So true
@@bakchodbabajijoletajaancho2538 why? I like that show...
@Caп¡s Aпuв¡s Why can't they show war documentaries on History channel?
@@spiritofe629 They use to be. But i think they show it on history hd. 😑
What a magnificently beautiful battleship. I'd love to visit that museum and see that spectacular model and other artifacts.
Just imagine how much hard, dirty work went into producing all that steel.
100% of this labour done by women
Slave labor
Ben Lotus ???
@@vincentas1 strong & independent women built these war ships
@@benlotus2703 where did you get this information?
力を示せば示すほど、自分の弱点も露わになる。
本当の強さは、力だけではなく、慎みと知恵にある。過度に力を誇示することは、予期せぬ挑戦を招き、準備が不十分な弱点をさらけ出すことになるかもしれない。時に、抑制こそが最も強力な力である。
There was no hope in this ship! It didn’t even have enough fuel to return to Japan. They knew it was being sacrificed to delay invasion.
kamikaze mission
Would have loved the opportunity. The highest achievement in Japanese society at that time was to fight and die in battle in defense of one's bloodline, people and nation. Millions of ancestral spirits were with the sailors before they died guiding them into the afterlife.
@@exodiathegreat3630 I think that would be 'kami-umi' rather than kamikaze.
@David Vance Nor was attacking the US, which dwarfed the Japanese economy greatly.
yes but she was going to beach herself so sinking it was impossible only taking out her main batteries and stuff would work which was very hard.
13:07. After 6 bomb hits and a torpedo.. hits Yamato “ in response yamato fired her anti-aircraft weapons... “.
derek Rohan I was laughing at that Before I read your comment. 👍
@@coraj.cardoso5929 i don't get what made you laugh there?
Vision_Slayer_525 the six hits and a torpedo. And then the Yamato fired her weapons.
@@coraj.cardoso5929 How can that be funny?
@ because the narration sounds so stupid it's almost funny.
imagine a ship getting with that much bombs and torpedoes before firing a single AA gun. Why not fire the AA guns as soon as there are enemy aircraft in range? that's what the wording of the narration sounds like.
I sometimes think that whether Japanese were planning to win the war or the beauty contest. Why is she so beautiful?
Surya prakash I think Scharnhorst, Richelieu, are quite beautiful, too.
Who the Yamato?
Yamato has been dead in hand of hidan. While naruto and his friend seems struggle fought againts zabuza. Sad story😭
@@deadby15 Just please remove Richelieu
why would a normal minded designer just stick two freaking double turret together and call it a quad-turret...
French designers are no good, navy and army alike. Just look at AMX-40 from WWII. Like wtf
@@maximusy8311
Japan Battleship
Four Yamato-class battleships were planned; the IJN Yamato herself, the second IJN Musashi, the third IJN Shinano, and the fourth known as IJN Kii.
Yamato and Musashi were completed, the Shinano was converted into a support aircraft carrier, and the fourth’s hull was started but never completed.
Wow... You guys have totally and truly filled the void that History Channel left us when they decided to ditch REAL history and go all in on "reality non-history" crap. I hope you keep up the good work with your videos.
when a gaming company does a better and more accurate documentary than actual history teachers
They haven't though. The end at least is completely false, she made it to her destination, beached herself and fired everything she had as intended. It was a kamikaze mission. She sank doing exactly what she was ordered to do
@@theryanplant Yamato never got close to Okinawa. Learn history before you type.
And 29 years later, he is tasked with flying in space.
Wow what a weeb
@@haachama-chama7179 Seriously, like who would want to be a weeb?
yalls talking about not being a weeb look to your pp
@@haachama-chama7179 Haha, I'm not weeb. I am a genuine Japanese person.
@@namiet2494 I'm sorry lol. It's a joke.
Naval legends シリーズで大和の再生回数が桁違いなの日本人として嬉しすぎる
Where the girls cry: Titanic
Where the bois cry:
What about Bismark?
@@ahmadaiman671 Yeah we cry a lot xD
@@ulikemyname6744 hjfuf uhghyfygjgkfk we cry a lot xdgfffrjh
Where the MEN cried.
Men cry when great battleships like these get sunk
That is when men cry
Yamato in WoWS is a viking funeral ship. Fires, fires everywhere.
Orkel2 yamato in reality was pretty useless too. Too big.
+Yoman 38 dont call a women fat
+Yoman 38 How can a ship be too big?
TheYamato101 when it is an easy target for torpedoes and aircraft carrier
Yoman 38 so any ship bigger than a heavy cruiser...
A giant steel coffin for 3,000 young men. RIP.
What a huge waste of material and human resource in the end, on both side of the war.
@@LHKKKing Wars work that way.
@@jamesdunn9714 thats why War its Hell no matter what.
That's how mafia works
Wrong.
2,999 and one old man. At least.
the greatest 'what if' in navy history, still, absolutely beautiful
Crazy to think she help the empire of Japan on her shoulders. RIP to all of those lost that day.
She lost over 3000 sailors and officers during her sinking
I feel bad for the brave men who died sinking this emblem of cruelty.
What on earth do you mean by 'on her shoulders'. Pearl Harbour?
@@AlexiaofHorus 😢
like their failed socialism isnt enough that gets most of em killed
Yo...this game development channel has more history document for each ship than History channel does.
It has more history than History Channel does.
Hahahahah such short :) well done 👍
True that. History channel nothing like it use to be.They Doo Doo Now.....
@@edwardjones8919 nuh we have *Pawn Stars* and *pickers* what are you talking about. Freaking imbecile
You mean The Hitler Channel.
"WAS HITLER AN ALIEN? AN ALIENIST GIVES US HIS VIEW AFTER THE BREAK."
the animation is over 9000
No u
Yamato and her whole crew passed away protecting their beloved country. They died like a true samurai, standing alone in front of thousands of enemies.
She was fleeing home and effectively did nothing to defend the homeland. The part about standing alone in front of thousands of enemies is true though, but no, she didn't get to protect anything. Very expensive, outdated, and underused.
What about pearl?
@@LeBronKK where do you get "outdated"? She launched in 1940.
@@watchgoose relative to her contemporaries, she was practically stone age
@@LeBronKK Unfortunately it was true. She might have been a beast but at the time she was used, far too vulnerable.
This has taught me more about The Pacific War than history class
Japanese sure know how to make ships.
Juggernaut 797 since when?
Juggernaut 797 Still not as bad as spending 1.5 trillion dollars on a military plane that doesn't fly.
blue green ignorance at its best
Assassin Mr. How am I being ignorant?
what else will they build for their military
Wonderful documentary, never imagined a official channel for a Game would make something like this. I have played the game years before but I still remember it was amazing.
Thanks for history lesson😀🤠
My favourite battleship is yamato although I am a Indian but I love Japan and yamato
Even the model is imposing.
+AngryTech That's a battleship for you. Big fuckin' guns
Too bad i will never hear any battleship firing it's guns
thought the same thing
+Tiberius16
Saw the flashes and heard the thunder of the Missouri and the Wisconsin in Desert Storm.
Came home with the Wisconsin and got to see a lot of her. Sweet memories, for sure.
sounds sweet now imagine a couple more inches, man those rounds where hefty.
I visited the Yamato Museum in Kure, where the model shown here is housed, along with a history of the shipyard during the war. This makes for a nice half-day trip from Hiroshima.
To be honest, the explosion pictured here when Yamoto capsized doesn't do it justice. The Yamoto's explosion had a cloud 6 KILOMETERS high (3 .7 miles) in height, and was seen 160 KM (99 miles) away.
it is just a visualization, don't take it seriously.
@@aajiinuevo that's what he said.
Do you know what deflagretation is?
Melissa Smith no, what is it ?
@@omargonzales3 It's a fascinating typo for 'deflagration' which is a "subsonic combustion propagating through heat transfer; hot burning material heats the next layer of cold material and ignites it.". But deflagretation might be a mixture of vegetation and deflagration, so it would be like a crop of jalapenos which would undergo subsonic combustions propagating through your colon with hot burning material.
現代の日本人にも大和は心の魂であり誇りです。日本人の精神そのものです。どうか海底で穏やかにお過ごしください。
When you see a Yamato in your game
“Only target the Yamato, nothing else... at... all...”
Aircraft carriers see that:
*10 secs later*
2639 planes in the air heading towards Yamato
KNG 811 Aircraft carriers be like, “Its rewind time!”
@@oceanicbloom1407 Aaaahaha. That's hot. That's hot
Reeeeeeeee
Us Cruiser with Yamato : *Activates the Anti Aircraft guns*
Ennemies Aircrafts : Oh sh***
Funny🤣🤣🤣🤣
27knots in a ship that size in the 40s. That is quick.
If you think the Yamatos were spry, take a gander at the Iowas and their 33-knot speed. Truly spectacular
Yes I watched the documentary on the Iowa class after watching the Yamato, 1940's 33knots SHIT ME. That would be a laugh today, also the Iowa class I believe was "Panamax" sized and as such had true global strike capacity, awesome ships.
Eventhough it was not run by nuclear power at all. The extreme engineering of Japanese engineers. Really amazing
@@braddockgrimsley232 Iowa weighs 14000 tonnes less than Yamato at full load though, and she's only faster by 6 knots. You can't really compare their top speeds like that.
Kongo class battlecruisers, as far as I know, are the only Dreadnoughts who can reach speeds over 29 knots.
I know that the Germans also had high speed battlecruiser Dreadnoughts, and Prinz Eitel Friedrich was one of them.
I once saw a Fubuki trying to tow a Yamato...
It didn't went anywhere.
KC
hahahahaha...
hereLiesThisTroper+ i know that. A fubuki is towing a yamato near the shore and trying to make it sail but cant cuz yamato said she was hungry so it did not go anywhere
I read that as "Fubuki trying to tow a Tomato" lol.
The battleship Yamato...
was a ship of the samurai of the sea...
knew it would be sunk while upholding Bushido...
and headed to the battlefield to defend Japan…
I love how the subtitle mentioned in metric while the narrator mentioning in imperial
One knot is 1.67 miles a kilometer is 0.6 miles or about why dont you change into centimeters good luck ronadam
Never take a battleship to an aircraft carrier fight .
Mind you a well aimed bloody great broadside from a battleships' main armament straight at an aircraft carrier wouldn't do it a lot of good would it? (Not that it is going to happen)
@ The only problem is the battle ship would never get close enough to do that before a few dive-bombers sent it to the bottom.
Just don’t follow the steps of HMS Glorious
They didn't have much choice. Their carriers had been destroyed and it was either a matter of throw it into battle and hope for the best or keep it in port and eventually get overrun.
@Inti Cheveyo Okay..............USN GR Ford battlegroup has been patiently waiting for 6 days to "have that private talk" out in the middle of the ocean. Russian battleship is struggling to suppress engine fires in order to get out of port. Tugboat captains that are moving the battleship are praying to Stalin that the tsar doesn't explode.
Okay guys we need to start a kickstarter to remake the Yamato, we're gonna need around $6 Billion so spread the word, poi~
İts 8$billion...
+Toprak özdemir oh I know, but if we put it at $6 billion, when we reach it, people will just be like "fuck it, let's just keep going" and we'll get to $8 billion quicker
someone here needs to clone Bill Gate's office so we can save up the money to rebuild the Yamato
Fate/Dynasty i would be happy with this
It would take a lot more then that! How about a Trillion? Don't tell the GOP, they love to cut government revenues and spend like crazy on the military!!
That scale model is AWESOME!
(I want one!) 😂👍
I can't imagine how the crew of yamato felt when looking up to see the sky full of American planes...and knowing that they couldn't do a thing to stop them.
Lazurkri In my opinion, it’s worse than that. They had so many AA guns, and were on the legendary Yamato, but there were so many planes that their efforts seemed futile. I feel like the knowledge that anything you can do won’t stop the inevitable is worse than thinking that there’s nothing you can do to stop the inevitable
Emperor Kyurem, even the 18 inch main armament on the Yamato could fire anti-aircraft Sanshiki-dan shells. They weighed 2998 pounds, and burst at the set range (adjustable before fitting fuse) and sending 900 incendiary tubes and 600 steel stays forward in a 20 degree cone after exploding.
@@nairdamorton5148 They were not effective. The americans called them "fireworks."
contrapasta, I totally agree with you. Just mentioned it for accuracy. You can't successfully target a fast moving plane with an 18 inch shell. !!
@@nairdamorton5148 I guess it was meant to be fired at a big horde of aircraft approaching before the Yamato opened up with its 5" and 0.98" AA guns
It's a shame Japan can't rebuild her for historical and educational purposes. For an enemy ship Yamato and Musashi were beyond impressive. I really want to go to that museum some day.
the yamato still the biggest war ship ever made
The cost would be too great. Money better spent on the Maglev Shinkansen
I think you are underestimating the size of the ship and the complexity of the task. Smaller size models accomplish this already.
Not only money, but also resources too. If only Yamato (or Musashi) was captured instead of destroying it. And even if it was captured, whether it'll become a museum ship or a Target Ship in Nuclear Test such as Operation Crossroads, for a largest battleship.
@@fobusas if would cost around $844.7-$971.4 Million USD to rebuild it today
The era of warships was over years before. It took Bismarck, Yamato and even more for the admirality to understand that.
they just couldnt compete against the carrier.
@@thefreestylefrEaK The tirpiz as well
Germany and Japan both had these extremely powerful Battleships that outclassed anything the allies could throw at them. But both made the same mistake. They sent them out with only a small escort. Bismarck only had 1 heavy Cruiser, and Yamato only had a small handful of escorts. Imagine what they could have done in the battles that destroyed them had they had a full strike force with Subs, Destroyers, and Cruisers.
First of all idk if Japan at that time could really afford to give yamato a large escort anyways
and 2nd of all dont imagine anything, regardless of the escorts (which were if anything only usefull against submarines) the yamato would have all perished the same way by the US carrier planes
To be fair, Japan was really low on ships. They couldn't really give more escorts to the Yamato.
Wrong ! Krieg Marine wasn't at all ready ! Prinz Eugen and Bismarck were Nazi's most powerful battleships but weren't able to fight a modern warfare with aircraft coming from a much farther range.
more like air support is needed than submarine, destroyers and cruisers. the yamato has i think around 9 ships with her. i dont think it is possible to win this air raid without any air support when they are against 11 aircraft carriers
Bismarck was not as powerful as popular media makes her out to be. She was outclassed in firepower by battleships like Colorado, Nelson, and Nagato, and outclassed in armor by ships like Richelieu, Nelson, and King George V
I like Yamato.
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...what a sad tomato
Ian Archer XDXDXD
I want that big scale model. And film it with RC U.S. Navy planes bombing it. 😁Banzai.
Its worth funding the game just for this fantastic documentary series alone.
A year ago when I started playing that game (that I do my best not to mention to often around WoWS players), I thought I had developed an interest in warships and naval history as a result of some misguided delusion. It turns out, odd as it may be, it wasn't destructive, nor was it anything new.
I recently found an encyclopedia of ships dating back to 95, when I was in kindergarden.
I grew up visiting the Massachusetts every summer and hearing stories of the Axis ships from those who fought them.
After I started playing, I came to a point where I decided to admit it to my father, and feared that he wouldn't approve of me playing due to the nature and content of it.
It turns out he built several ship models in his youth including Bismarck and Missouri, but his pride and joy above all others was Yamato, which he considered the most beautiful battleship ever built. He also inadvertently inspired my love of anime.
So I've always had this connection. It just took an unlikely source to remind me of it.
Ever since I've had this rediscovery of the love I had as a kid playing on the decks of my ships, like I understand them better for walking a mile in their enemies' shoes.
Thank you very much for the audio track in Brazilian Portuguese, I love Wargaming's work I always learn with WOWS and Naval Legends about naval forces from WW and WW2.
The name "Yamato" is one of the old name of Japan, and she literally was the symbol of Japan.
She went down to the dark and deep sea, and with this affair, we've lost to America.
Japan was born again and completely be obedience to America.
But most of Japanese remember the tragic story of Yamato, and secretly desire the reborn of her.
"Space Battle Ship Yamato" is one of the most popular anime in Japan.
In this anime, Yamato was rebuilt as a space battle ship that would save the earth.
This anime stands for the wish of Japanese.
are you Japanese ,if so why japan now behind India in military if they were so great
@@thetruth8630 Only Indians bring up India, no one else in the world cares (figure of speech, but not far off from the truth)
@@voltgaming2213 difference in navy doctrine
@@jieranli true
@@voltgaming2213 Because Japan is no longer an empire, and with the U.S. providing military protection for Japan, they don't really need a massive military force anymore. That's why their military is called a 'self defense force' now. They still have some damn cool homemade jet fighters for the JASDF though.
All these Bismarck fanboys in the comments... I hope you all realize that a fight with either Yamato or Iowa would result in the complete and utter destruction of Bismarck. It would require a battleship such as Iowa or Montana to even stand up to Yamato. The Bismarck was puny compared to Yamato.
I've sunk Iowas with ease cause I magazined him and it was with a tirpitz plus I got so any citadels that game
Kanapaen Dixon That's a game. And you got lucky. I'm talking about real life. The Bismarck would just roll over and sink compared to Iowa irl.
+ANDROMADA look who's talking transport ship
Kanapaen Dixon Life's a bitch, but I'm right.
+ANDROMADA the Bismarck class was built for the Atlantic close range battles not plunging fire of the pacific
I understand the intent of the final mission of the Yamato was that she would be beached and act as an artillery battery to deter the invading allies, but she never made it to her destination. It was always a one-way mission.
She actually did though. This documentary is incorrect. She made it to the island, she made her last stand beached firing everything she had as intended. It was a one way kamikaze mission.
@@theryanplant that's good to know. The samurai spirit. I understand also that she was finished off after Allied Helldivers, originally a much maligned aircraft, knocked out her anti-air defenses with their bombing raids, opening the door for the torpedo bombers to follow. A remarkable ship, the Yamato. I also see a parallel with the end of the Bismarck. where her destruction was assisted by the hit on her rudder by an English Swordfish bomber, a biplane that was way out of date at the start of World War Two.
My dad was always big in WWII history. He never got into the Japanese side (for obvious reasons) and I've never seen anything about the Yamato until now. But upon finding this, GOD I'M IN LOVE WITH JAPANESE BATTLESHIPS. That thing was terrifying looking. Too bad (or is it?) that it was so slow and inefficient.
The manpower to build the Yamato would have been huge, that thing was Massive.
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They were trying to compensate for something small...
Yamato's final battle be like:
When you're using Yamato and the enemy team got 5 carriers and your team is afk.
Michael Wittman's final battle be like:
When you're with your platoon of 3 tiger tanks and got obliterated just by a Sherman Firefly tank
@@joncedricbermudez3745 Yep my tank exploded that tank driven by tea drinkers blew my tanks turret off.
It's actually the opposite:
when your Yamato went AFK for a few minutes and then when you logged in again, you found your braindead team got rekt and you are the last BB left.
When your ally dds aren't doing their job to spot and torp the cvs
I think it was 9 carriers, 4 or 5 were escorts
10:11 that scene is just perfect