Part 3: Battleship Yamato's Final Battle - Operation Ten-ichi-go - 04/07/1945
Вставка
- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- As the Invasion of Okinawa got underway in March-April 1945, the last operational battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy -- and its flagship -- Yamato, the largest battleship ever built, shipping 73,000 tons fully loaded, armed with nine 18.1" guns (465 cm guns), was sent on a one-way "Surface Kamikaze" mission to attack the USN fleet off Okinawa.
Yamato, light cruiser Yahagi, and 8 destroyers were all the ships that Japan had left to throw into this battle. It was to be the last operation of the Imperial Navy. Sailing with no air cover, Yamato's chances of closing to within 26 miles of the invasion fleet -- the range of its 18" guns -- were slim and none.
Less than half-way to Okinawa, 386 USN planes attacked the Yamato task force in three waves, starting at about Noon of April 7, 1945. In just over 2 hours, Yamato, Yahagi, and 4 of the 8 destroyers had been sent to the bottom. The operation became a giant "turkey shoot" for the USN. Yamato herself absorbed a mind-boggling 22 torpedoes, and at least as many bombs, before she capsized and exploded, taking over 3000 of her crew of 3300 down with her. The total Japanese losses in the battle were 4000 men.
The USN lost 12 planes and 10 pilots. The age of the battleship was over.
Yamato's final mission is remembered in Japan today much as the Texans remember the Alamo.
The story of Battleship Yamato touches on some of the most admired traits in human character - traits that cut across the ages, and across cultures. Honor, Courage, Selflessness, Sacrifice.
Two millennia ago, King Leonidas and his Spartans fell to a man blocking the pass of Thermopylae long enough for the Greek armies to escape from the Persian onslaught. In ancient times, a tablet was erected there reading: "Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie."
Similarly, the Jewish defenders of Masada who held out for over a year against the Roman armies of Titus, before dying to a man, are remembered to this day for their heroism.
So are the defenders of the Alamo, who fell during the Texan Revolution against Mexico.
In historical terms, willingly sacrificing oneself for one's country when there is no hope of victory - or personal survival - is to earn what Theodore Roosevelt called "Deathless Fame."
So it was with the Men of Yamato - whose actions earned for themselves, and for their ship, the same "Deathless Fame" as the defenders of Thermopylae, Masada, and the Alamo earned before them.
This Japanese recreation of Yamato's final mission is accurate to the last detail in recreating the order of battle, as well as the flow and results of that battle. It is almost like being there. Enjoy!
WWW.BATTLESHIPYAMATO.COM
NOTE: Argumentative Posts that use profanity or racial slurs will be deleted and the user blocked from this channel. Thank you for keeping the discussion civil.
Yamato,the legend!⭐
大和の最後は、何度観ても、悲しくなります。
The Japanese surface fleet always gave an impressive performance. Right up to the end. The US could afford to absorb the loss of ships, Japan could not.
When you pick a fight with a country that has more resources, more money and more friends…..you have not chosen your enemy well. Pretty much initiated their own demise at that time.
Although their performance in this battle was lacking to put it mildly. They shot down fewer then 10 planes. Of the dozen planes we lost, half were lost when the ship exploded. Absolutely abysmal AA performance.
The sinking of the Yamamo was looked on with satisfaction by the U.S. Pacific fleet high command. Take care.
Lol yamamo
@@juderonnelbarbante8596 sry i misstyped LOL
@@juderonnelbarbante8596 wait no, i was laughing at the original comment that's why i said that
There was no other way to look at the Yamato’s demise other than satisfying. The Yamato was on its way to the islands…..forgot which one…. to be beached and used against our Marines. It had to be stopped no matter what.
@@penelopelopez8296 the yamato was protecting the okinawa islands. Spotted my task force 58 aircrafts and got attacked, sunk.
They would've, but; the Americans sunk all the carriers at Leyte. They had no more. Shame, it was such a beautiful vessel. 18 inch guns, the biggest ever deployed on a ship. The Americans biggest was 16 inch and the Germans was 15inch; all very impressive.
Samuel Parker the biggest issue was the Japanese followed a doctrine that believed a naval war would be won by one decisive battle. But they were worried about what would happen. Like if you look at when they deployed the center fleet and were intercepted by the tiny Sammy b and Johnson They had a chance at completely seal clubbing the Americans. But for whatever reason they were spooked off
eddie lewis
The Iowas were built smaller so they could fit through the Panama Canal, the Japanese didnt have to worry about it.
The carriers sunk at Leyte Gulf were virtually devoid of pilots and aircraft. Reduced to mere decoys to lure Halsey north.
@@singaporeunited1514 I'm sure being tortured by the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere would be better?
Scooter George and it worked..
4,137 Japanese sailors and 97 American sailors lost their lives in this battle - needlessly. By April 1945, the war was over. And anyone in the Japanese government or military knew it. So over 4,000 men were sent on a foolish mission and their lives were ended needlessly. Even had Operation Ten Go been a success, and it never would have, it never would have changed the course of the war. It wouldn't have even delayed it. It says something about those Japanese sailors, however, with them knowing that they would be killed and knowing that whatever they did would not change the outcome of the war that they followed orders and carried out their mission regardless. Very brave and loyal men. I just wish that they never would have been ordered to go out on such a needless and foolish mission.
I believe Vice Admiral Ito refused to let the mission play out until he learned that the emperor himself expected the mission to go through
IJN Eien ni!
8:57 bro what
Torpedo probably went too deep in the water
Literal translation: Operation Heaven One
Onore al valoroso popolo Giapponese!
うん。日本軍はスーパーブレイブです
0:38
What if Yamato had 40mm AA instead
OH NO
No matter what the size of the guns were…..it wouldn’t have made a difference because the ship was marked for attack if located. He US Navy found it by accident and went for it.
maybe it could have shot down more of them but not even close to enough.
You have to take into account that the 40mm wasn't the biggest advantage the US had, what made the 40mm effective was the radar fire control system not the guns itself, not discrediting the bofors but the german 37mm of the late war was more effective in terms of characteristics.
Other massive advantage the us had was the hevt fuze that made long range aa actually usefull on ships
จุดอ่อนคือ ไม่มีเครื่องบินป้องกันภัยทางอากาศ
1:54大変態w
マジレスすると大編隊な。
↑分かってると思うけど。
ネタにマジレスするのもどうかと思うんだけどやっぱりこういうことネタにしてほしくないなっていう個人的な意見で言わせてもらいました。
不快に感じたらすみません。
対空火器が貧弱です・・・
7:02-7:19
This scene goes so hard bro feel free to screenshot
Or as General Patton so eloquently stated " No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country, he won by making the other poor, dumb bastard die for his country."
駆逐艦浜風は魚雷を一本食らっただけで轟沈してるけど、大和はあの魚雷を20本も食らって、まだ沈まない
これが、大和が不沈艦と言われてる所以
このとき大和は11ポン魚雷食らってます
大和は、 18.1インチのシェルを持っており、大和は世界最大の戦艦であります
乗り物ファン 【B36B】
@@akezaris それは270.4メートルのアイオワであります。たぶん
@@syolyog 多分
I have a IJN Battle flag that has a lot of shrapnel holes in it but unfortunately no context bu with some Japanese characters on it, I'll take it to a sushi restaurant for tranlation.
大和の沖縄水上特攻の時の艦長は有賀幸作大佐。その前つまりレイテ沖海戦の時の艦長は森下信衛大佐(のち第二艦隊参謀長で少将)。
歴史にifは禁物だが、もし沖縄水上特攻の時も森下信衛が艦長だったら、という人はいる
I like I.J.N YAMATO
Such a legendary ship.
曲知りたい人
貼っとくぞ↓
ua-cam.com/video/VmtYrZCPHew/v-deo.html
Respect from Indonesian 🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩
1:38
1:48
5:37
Japan thought using 18.1-inch guns of the Musashi and Yamato would wipe out the rest of the US fleet in the last days of the Pacific War, but they've really underestimated the Americans big time, and the United States took down both the Yamato and Musashi as ultimate revenge for Pearl Harbor!
The United States not only fought back against Japan, the Americans emerged victorious after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, forcing the Japanese to surrender to the US and its allied forces.
America made Japan pay for the destruction they've done on Pearl Harbor, and I can assure that the Americans don't kid around with our adversaries, whether its Japan or Germany during the time of war!
how fast does the 25mm type 96 rotate? I really wanna know since I cant find anything about it's traverse speed for rotation and elevation
Drachinifel did answered a few questions about the 25mm type 96 in his DryDock videos.
Depends on the mount, electrical ones like the armored ones on Yamato had 18°/s of horizontal rotation, and 12°/s of elevations using Ward-Leonard RPC mounts
Normal triple mounts where manually aimed so less then 10°/s for both.
The 25mm was a trash tier gun, low traverse and elevations rates are the smallest of the problems with it.
Weegee nerf cv pls
6:40
大和ホテルの最後
Today, one well armed fighter jet would take care of that ship in a few minutes. These huge monster war ships are useless against todays fighter jets. The only thing a big war ship would be good for today is battling pirates and Iran.
Modern fighters carry no torpedoes and the missiles are all high explosive and are actually much slower than a battleship shell(Yamato's traveled at Mach 2.3) and have less penetrating capacity than even a bomb from WW2. Today virtually all warships are unarmoured so it doesn't matter but even an F-15EX carrying 5 JDAMs would do little damage against her, at most destroying the bridge and fire directors.
it doesn't show that yomotows sister get distroyed
Musashi was sunk earlier at Leyte Gulf by USN air attack.
I like all the ships from pt 1 pt 2 and pt 3
Somethings bugged me for awhile now and still no answer, if the americans already knew japans anti air capabilities is not good (gun accuracy -100) then why did they still go to use the bombs to take out the AA before torpedo strikes
The main reason is that "putting holes in the deck" (as well as strafing the decks as all planes were instructed to do until their ammo ran out) took out the AA guns, allowing the slower and more vulnerable torpedo bombers to have a greater chance of success. And once in a while a bomb would hit a magazine and *BOOM*. While it is true that it was the torpedoes that sent Yamato to the bottom, the bomb hits and strafing essentially destroyed all of her AA guns by the end of the 2-hour engagement ... and that early aft bomb hit took out both the rear 6" secondary gun and the ship's radar room, starting a fire that was never extinguished. So the combination of bombs and torpedoes was the most efficient way to get the job done for the USN, as well as to save USN fliers' lives.
Yamato and Musashi were simply too big. They were completely impractical for WWII. They could only be useful if Japan had total air superiority in any engagement they could be brought into. Thus both sat safe, as floating hotels, for most of the war. Like most battleships they were built for a very narrow purpose and unless those narrow terms were met, they were not as useful as smaller, cheaper, faster, more fuel efficient ships. Both should have had their big guns melted down and been turned into super carriers.
When the Japan build the Yamato they had 20 CVS. They had total air superiority at the start of the War.
groovy
Also when this happened, Japan was on their way to defeat. Most of air, navy and land weapons troops had been destroyed, yet in place of bombing, why did not two US battlewagons take on the Yamato.
Zeer goede actie film
Nice.
Can u do English subtitles pls
修羅場
Nowadays Japanese understand all this is a huge waste done by collective fear and lies.
고목정웅 과 그 의 딸이 이 걸 본다면 눈물을 삼키며 시청할 것 입니다
なに言ってるかわかんねえよバカコリア
整形が有名な国って恥ずいよね
เหมือนจริงมาก👍
ทำเหมือนมาก👍👍
Hello greetings from Philippines 🤣
I am from india I respect yomato naval ship world in the best yomato I love ❤️ it.......
Yamoto*
@@robertyoung3992 and you messed-up. It's Yamato
Edit: messed up :(
如果用潜艇攻击早沉了。
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
😁
Pp