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At left: Yamato's fatal explosion on April 7, 1945. When the smoke and debris cleared the mightily battleship was gone!

By Russell Spurr

Used Hardback (book club) with dust jacket

Below: Japanese battleship, Yamato. NOTE: This image does not appear in the book.

318 pages, 37 B/W photographs, 4 maps and diagrams.

Used  $19.95

The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945
   The Yamato was the biggest and most powerful battleship ever built. Assembled in intense secrecy at a specially prepared dock to hide her construction, the massive 72,000-ton Japanese warship was commissioned in December 1941, just over a week after the start of the Pacific war. Yamato housed nine, 18-inch guns in three giant turrets. She could fire 3,200 pound armor piercing shells, out-gunning even America's best; the Iowa-class battleships. Yamato's armor protection was also unsurpassed. With a crew of 2,700 men and just over 862 feet long, the battlewagon quickly became the pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy—and a top priority target for the U.S. Navy. She was torpedoed by the American submarine USS Skate (SS-305) in December 1943 but failed to sink. At the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944, Yamato unleashed her big guns in an engagement with U.S. escort carriers and destroyers off the island of Samar. As the Pacific war pushed on to conclusion, the Japanese sent Yamato on a one-way kamikaze mission in April 1945. Yamato was to hurl herself at the invading Allied vessels at Okinawa and destroy as many ships as possible. Russell Spurr tells the true story of the mightiest battleship to ever go to sea, from Yamato's launching to the disastrous sinking at the hands of the Allies in 1945.

   1981 Hardback edition (Book Club) with dust jacket. 318 pages, 37 B/W photos, 4 maps, two diagrams of Yamato, appendix and an index.

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Above: Yamato at sea in 1941

 

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