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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Japanese battleship Musashi
		Musashi (武蔵;) was a battleship belonging to the Imperial Japanese Navy.
		With her sister ship Yamato, she was a member of the largest and most heavily armoured class of battleships ever constructed.
		She formed part of Vice-Admiral Takeo Kurita[?]'s Centre Force along with Yamato at the battle of Leyte Gulf.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ja/Japanese_battleship_Musashi (119 words)

	Definition of Japanese battleship Yamato
		Yamato (大和) was a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, and was the lead ship of her class.
		She returned to the conflict and joined the Japanese fleet in the Battle of the Philippine Sea (June) and the Battles of Leyte Gulf and Samar Gulf (October), during which she first fired her main guns.
		In a futuristic anime television and movie series Space Battleship Yamato, humanity salvages the wreck of Yamato from the evaporated ocean floor and refits it as a spaceship which saves the Earth and its people from toxic radiation which is ravaging the planet.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Japanese_battleship_Yamato (830 words)

	Japanese battleship Yamato - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yamato was built in intense secrecy at a specially prepared dock to hide her construction at Kure Naval Dockyards beginning on 4 November 1937.
		Yamato is hit by a bomb near her forward 460 mm gun turret, during attacks by U.S. carrier planes as she transited the Sibuyan Sea.
		Yamato was the flagship of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto from 12 February 1942, replacing Nagato.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_battleship_Yamato (1802 words)

	Japanese battleship Yamato - Definition, explanation
		Yamato (大和), named after the Yamato Province, was a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, and was the lead ship of her class.
		In a futuristic anime television and movie series Space Battleship Yamato, broadcast in the US as Star Blazers, humanity salvages the wreck of Yamato from the evaporated ocean floor and refits it as a spaceship which saves the Earth and its people from toxic radiation which is ravaging the planet, due to alien bombardment.
		Yamato is also the name of one of the Galaxy Class sister ships to the USS Enterprise on.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/j/ja/japanese_battleship_yamato.php (1009 words)

	Japanese battleship Nagato - Definition, explanation
		Nagato (Japanese: 長門, named after Nagato province) was a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the lead ship of her class.
		She was the first battleship to mount 16 inch (410 mm) guns, and she was the flagship of Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
		The two battleships were forced to turn away from the action to the north for 10 miles (16 km) until the torpedoes ran out of fuel.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/j/ja/japanese_battleship_nagato.php (949 words)

	Sinking the Supership
		Yamato, the largest battleship ever built, represented Japan's military might even though the ship had a negligible effect on the course of the Pacific War.
		The battleship Yamato's planned attack on the American fleet off Okinawa is often referred to as a kamikaze mission and was designated by the Japanese Navy as a special attack (tokkou in Japanese), since no one aboard the battleship expected to survive against overwhelming numbers of American warships and planes.
		Although the giant battleship was a well-known symbol of Japan's military strength, it quickly turned into a white elephant spending most of its time during the war just sitting at port in mainland Japan.
	wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu /kamikaze/films/documentaries/supership (700 words)

	Yamato - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yamato period, which is the period of Japanese history when the Japanese Imperial court ruled from Yamato Province
		Yamato Takeru, a legendary Japanese prince of the Yamato dynasty
		Yamato, Niigata, a former town in Niigata, Japan, which on 1 November 2004 merged with the town of Muika, Japan forming the city of Minamiuonuma, Japan
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yamato (606 words)

	Japanese battleship Yamato (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Larger versionYamato (大和) was a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
		Yamato (大和) was a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
		She and her escorts were sent to attack the US troops on the west of the island, the Yamato was to beach herself between Hagushi and Yontan and fight until she was destroyed.
	www.explainthat.info /ja/japanese-battleship-yamato.html (903 words)

	HIJMS Yamato - Wikimedia Commons
		HIJMS Yamato, named after the ancient Japanese Yamato Province, was a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, and was the lead ship of her class.
		Japanese 46 cm Shell as fired by the Battleship Yamato at the Yasukuni Shrine.
		Yamato is hit by a bomb near her forward 460mm gun turret, during attacks by U.S. carrier planes as she transited the Sibuyan Sea.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/HIJMS_Yamato (503 words)

	The Battleship Kongo
		The Japanese battleship Kongô, a ship with a magical name and an important history, was budgeted in 1910 and ordered from the British shipbuilder Vickers in January 1911.
		Battleships had always required masts for spotting, range finding, and fire control, but the need for height increased as possible ranges of targets increased and eyeballing was replaced by heavy optical equipment.
		Victory was no foregone conclusion, since these six Japanese battleships (with an ex-Chinese one thrown in), did not outnumber the Russian squadron in Port Arthur.
	www.friesian.com /kongo.htm (6807 words)

	Yamato: From Battleship to Spacecraft \| MetaFilter
		The IJN Yamato is rebuilt as Space Cruiser Yamato, and she undertakes a journey to planet Iscandar to save Earth.
		Yamato Mechanics is a Japanese website with some great Yamato related illustrations.
		Apparently, the Yamato had munitions for the main gun that were intended specifically for anti-aircraft use.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/45569 (1548 words)

	Yamato the first and last Super Battleship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Yamato received comparatively light damage during the Leyte Gulf battle, and was sent home in November 1944.
		Japanese battleship Yamato (top) and a destroyer in action with U.S. Navy carrier planes north of Okinawa on 7 April 1945.
		Yamato appears to be down at the bow and moving slowly after being hit by multiple air attacks.
	www.ussessexcv9.org /Bravepages/yamato.html (354 words)

	Japanese Battleships
		The Fuso class battleships were characterized by their tall superstructures. Although they were more heavily armed and faster than most foreign battleships of the time, they lacked much in armor. These ships were already out dated by World War II and were easily sunk by US naval Forces.
		The Nagato class of battleships not only was the first Japanese battleships to sport the 16” guns, but also the first in the world to have them. She was also faster and bettered armored than most her counterparts of the day.
		The fourth Yamato class of battleship was laid 7 November 1940. However, it was cancelled in 1942 and scrapped in 1943.
	www.ussmissouri.com /Battleship-Japanese.htm (974 words)

	"Yamato" Photo Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The construction of Yamato: a pert of the revolving structire for one of her 460 mm gun turrets during assembly.
		Yamato and her consorts, including the light cruiser Yahagi and eight destroyers, left port in mid-afternoon on 6 April 1945, the day that the "Ten-Go" suicide planes began their all-too-horrible onslaught.
		Yamato explodes as she sinks, after receiving massive torpedo and bomb damage from U.S. Navy carrier planes north of Okinawa, 7 April 1945, as seen from USS Yorktown plane.
	www.warship.get.net.pl /Japonia/Battleships/1941_Yamato_class/_Yamato_photos.html (2521 words)

	Tamiya America Item #78002 \| Japanese Yamato Battleship Kit - Order 78014
		The length of the Yamato was 256 metres, the breadth 34.6 metes and it had a draft of 10 metres.
		On April 6th 1945 the Yamato took part in "Operation Ten No.1" (Operation kikusui), and on the 7th April early in the morning the Japanese unit was spotted by an enemy plane and in the afternoon it was attacked by more than 300 enemy aircraft.
		The Yamato was hit by ten torpedoes and eight bombs and at 2.23 p.m.
	www.tamiyausa.com /product/item.php?product-id=78002 (569 words)

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		Requiem for Battleship Yamato is a paradigm of the enduring warrior spirit in Japan.
		Battleship Yamato is one of the model most loved in the Japanese model as well as ZERO-Fighter or GUNDAM.
		Yamato was sent against U.S. forces on a suicide mission near the end of World War II and was sunk by American aircraft.
	www.lycos.com /info/battleship--battleship-yamato.html (320 words)

	Battleship Yamato Memorial Tower
		The Navy designated the mission as "special attack" (tokkou in Japanese), which meant the men on Yamato were expected to die in the attack.
		According to a sign next to the tower, 3,721 men from this Japanese task force lost their lives that day [1].
		The Battleship Yamato Memorial Tower was erected in April 1968 on Cape Inutabu, located in the southwest part of the small island of Tokunoshima.
	wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu /kamikaze/monuments/yamato/index.htm (276 words)

	THE FOG OF WAR-AND PRE-WAR TOO:
		Yamato was to leave Truk on January 10 and arrive on January 15 for dry-docking at Kure.
		Yamato often joked to boots that these guns were “the largest 40 cm guns in the Japanese Navy.” Also controversial were the tunnel-shaped compartments on either side of the stern.
		Yamato, which should have been the greatest battleship ever built, in truth was already obsolete when launched in 1941—fire control radar and especially seaborne aircraft had changed the nature of combat at sea.
	users.ju.edu /jclarke/yamato.htm (6361 words)

	Yamato (JAPAN 2006)
		On April 6, 1945, the crewmen of the formidable Yamato were sent on a suicide mission to attack the US fleet near Okinawa.
		On the eve of the sixtieth anniversary of the sinking of the Yamato, a woman named Makiko Uchida (Kyoka Suzuki), who turns out to be the adopted daughter of a Yamato survivor, attempts to find a boat captain daring enough to bring her to the site of the wreckage.
		In this respect, Yamato seems to be a film that wants to be about the individual costs of war, yet somehow speak for every single soldier on the boat.
	www.lovehkfilm.com /panasia/yamato.htm (1399 words)

	Battleship Yamato
		Battleship Yamato was a Imperial Japanese Navy battleship.
		Battleship Yamato was the flagship of Isoroku Yamamoto from February 1942.
		The Yamato was to beach herself between Hagushi and Yontan and fight as a shore battery until she was destroyed.
	www.battle-fleet.com /pw/his/Yamato_battleship_WW2.htm (693 words)

	The explosion was horrendous
		From what I heard, four to five thousand Japanese were lost that day, particularly when the Yamato turned over and blew up, and by counting the losses from the cruiser and destroyers that were sunk in the vicinity.
		“As the immense Yamato continued her turn to port, I swerved astern and sent my fish racing across the vessel’s wake and hit her on the inside of her turn on the port quarter, close to the fantail.
		“The Yamato rolled over on her side and went under eventually and the cruiser slipped up into the air, bow first and then slid back down into the water like it was a toy boat.
	www.ussyorktown.com /yorktown/battleship2.htm (1345 words)

	Full-scale movie set of the battleship Yamato in Onomichi [2]
		The shooting on location was concentrated on the port, because the attack to the battleship Yamato was concentrated to the port.
		The equipment of the battleship Yamato was in a class of its own, and she gave good service.
		Although the Yamato was outdated as an arms, I am proud that Japan of those days constructed such an excellent warship, and it grieves me to think of that about 3000 crew were killed with her.
	www.oshipee.com /omami/e-photo-yamatomovie-set2.htm (847 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-The Battle for Okinawa. Invaded 1st. of April 1945-
		The Japanese and Okinawan conscripts, something of the order of 107,000 dead, plus 100,000 civilian civilians slain, the mind boggles at the scale of death and destruction, all in the space of only 62 days started from the 1st.
		Japanese Army dug into caves and tunnels mainly on the high ground where the Naval bombardment was largely ineffective.
		Over the next two hours, the Japanese naval force was under constant attack, Yamato taking 12 bombs and seven torpedoes, and this was all too much, she blew up and sank.
	ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/TheBattleforOkinawa.Invad.html (936 words)

	Japanese Navy Ships--Yamato (Battleship, 1941-1945)
		Yamato, lead ship of a class of two 65,000-ton (over 72,800-tons at full load) battleships, was built at Kure, Japan.
		Their nine 460mm (18.1-inch) main battery guns, which fired 1460kg (3200 pound) armor piercing shells, were the largest battleship guns ever to go to sea, and the two ships' scale of armor protection was also unsurpassed.
		Yamato in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, 22-26 October 1944; and
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/japan/japsh-xz/yamato.htm (709 words)

	Yamato Today
		In Kure, where Yamato was built, there is a Yamato Class memorial monument that imitates the bridge and the mast of the battleship Yamato.
		Yamato's sinking was one of the worst marine disasters in history - however still comparably smaller than the sinking of Wilhelm Gustloff.
		So Yamato is definately outclassed by the new era of aircraft carriers, but it still is and probably will forever remain as the biggest battleship ever built.
	www.battleshipyamato.info /wreck.html (2481 words)

	Japanese battleship Yamato - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		The class was designed to be superior to Iowa-class battleships in all respects.
		In the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Galaxy-class sister ship to the Enterprise-D is named the Yamato.
		The historical fiction anime series Zipang features the Yamato prominently in the beginning episodes of the series, in a fashion similar to the 1980 movie The Final Countdown.
	www.music.us /education/J/Japanese-battleship-Yamato.htm (913 words)

	Mutant Reviewers from Hell do "Space Battleship Yamato: The Movie" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A refitted World War II battleship is sent into space on a mission to save the planet from nasty aliens, proving that it really does pay to recycle.
		The downside of Space Battleship Yamato: The Movie, is that it’s really nothing more than a condensed, compressed, folded, spindled and stomped on version of the original serialization.
		Narrator: Yamato’s dual function as a submarine allowed her to appear capsized on the ocean floor.
	www.mutantreviewers.com /ryamato.html (1447 words)

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