Japanese Movie - Yamato Trailer

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IJN Yamato


Year Completed Yamato: 1941
Displacement 71,659 tons
Dimensions 862'10" x 121'1" x 32'11"
Speed 27 knots
Armament 9 x 18.1"/45
12 (later 6) x 6.1"/60
12 (later 24) x 5"/40 DP
up to 150 x 25mm AA
4 x 13mm AA
Armor 16.1" belt (inclined)
11.8" bulkheads
9.1" deck
25.6" turret face
19.7" conning tower
Crew 2800
 
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I have read that the Japanese built very expensive sets to make this motion picture. I hope that it is available in some form in the US. I will check that later.

Excellent trailer. makes me wann go to sea..aarrvvhhh!!!

To me the best WWII movie, about the Pacific, ever made was "Tora! Tora! Tora!. A most accurate film. Many of the ship board IJN scenes were filmed on board HIJMS Mikasa which incased in cement in a park in Yokosuka Japan.

I did see it once while stationed in Japan but it was closed.:(

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bd popeye said:
I have read that the Japanese built very expensive sets to make this motion picture. I hope that it is available in some form in the US. I will check that later.

Excellent trailer. makes me wann go to sea..aarrvvhhh!!!

To me the best WWII movie, about the Pacific, ever made was "Tora! Tora! Tora!. A most accurate film. Many of the ship board IJN scenes were filmed on board HIJMS Mikasa which incased in cement in a park in Yokosuka Japan.

I did see it once while stationed in Japan but it was closed.:(

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A few HIJMS Mikasa pictures
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I've read it somewhere from the account of the survisors of Yamato, US Navy pilot showed uncunning courage while attacking the Yamato. They were told that US armsmen were all cowards that will run away at the first sign of danger. However during the actual attack on Yamato many fought bravely and crashed their burning planes into the ship much like Kamakazi pilots.

Either that or it could be that a dive bomber on their bombing wrong had its control surface all shot up and had no way of turning away.

Regardless of how I feel about the war, I wouldn't mind seeing this movie. From a technical perspective, Yamato is a magnificiant ship and along with Iowa Class and Bismark, represented the end of an era.
 
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As previously stated I would love to see the film. I still need to check on it's availablity in the US.

IDonT, is there an English version of the movie avalilable?

The problems with the IJN was multi-fold as the war in the Pacific wore on.

The ships were not well constructed. The battle hardend ships and crews were not rotated back to Japan as often as need be. And the newerIJN sailors were very poorly trained. Particulary in the area of Damage control and safe handling of munitions.
 
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As previously stated I would love to see the film. I still need to check on it's availablity in the US.

IDonT, is there an English version of the movie avalilable?

The problems with the IJN was multi-fold as the war in the Pacific wore on.

The ships were not well constructed. The battle hardend ships and crews were not rotated back to Japan as often as need be. And the newerIJN sailors were very poorly trained. Particulary in the area of Damage control and safe handling of munitions.
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I don't think so. But maybe you can get an english subtitled version.

The Yamato did not see that much service. In 1943 it only put out to sea for about a week. The IJN does not want to see it sunk, sort of the same way that the name USS America and Deutchland, are no longer valid ship names.

US spends a large significant of assets over the recovery of its personel. People think of this as cowardice but it is really conservation of its vital military assets. It is the men that win wars. Losing a well trained personel is harder to replace than machines. Japan found this out the hardway once its initial cadre of highly trained naval aviators started to die out by 1943.
 
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IDonT said:
I don't think so. But maybe you can get an english subtitled version.

The Yamato did not see that much service. In 1943 it only put out to sea for about a week. The IJN does not want to see it sunk, sort of the same way that the name USS America and Deutchland, are no longer valid ship names.

US spends a large significant of assets over the recovery of its personel. People think of this as cowardice but it is really conservation of its vital military assets. It is the men that win wars. Losing a well trained personel is harder to replace than machines. Japan found this out the hardway once its initial cadre of highly trained naval aviators started to die out by 1943.
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Here is the best encapsulated history of Yamato's combat record that I could find:

"Yamato was the flagship of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto from 12 February 1942, replacing Nagato. She sailed with the Nagato, Mutsu, Hosho, Sendai, nine destroyers and four auxiliary ships as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's Main Body during the attempted invasion of Midway Atoll in June 1942, but took no active part in the Battle of Midway. She remained the flagship for 364 days until February 11, 1943, when the flag was transferred to her sister ship Musashi.

From 29 August 1942 to 8 May 1943, she spent all of her time at Truk, being underway for only one day during this entire time. In May 1943, she returned to Kure, where the two wing 15.5 cm turrets were removed and replaced by 25 mm machine guns, and Type-22 surface search radars were added. She returned to Truk on 25 December 1943. On the way there, she was damaged by a torpedo from the submarine USS Skate, and was not fully repaired until April 1944. During these repairs, additional 12.7 cm anti-aircraft guns were installed in the place of the 15.5 cm turrets removed in May, and additional 25 mm anti-aircraft guns were added.

She joined the Japanese fleet in the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944. In October, she participated in the Battles of Leyte Gulf and Samar, during which she first fired her main guns in anger. She received two bomb hits from aircraft which did little damage. She returned home in November and her anti-aircraft capability was again upgraded over the winter. She was attacked in the Inland Sea on March 19, 1945 by carrier aircraft from Task Force 58 as they attacked Kure, but suffered little damage.

Her final mission was as part of Operation Ten-Go following the invasion of Okinawa on 1 April 1945. She was sent on a suicide mission (commanded by Admiral Seiichi Ito) to attack the US fleet supporting the US troops landing on the west of the island. On 6 April Yamato and her escorts, the light cruiser Yahagi and 8 destroyers, left port at Tokuyama. They were sighted on 7 April by American submarines as they exited the Inland Sea southwards. The U.S. Navy launched 386 aircraft to intercept the task force, and the planes engaged the ships starting at 12:30 that afternoon. Yamato took 8 bombs and 12 torpedo hits before, at about 14:23, she capsized to port and her aft magazines detonated. She sank while still some 200 km from Okinawa. Of her crew 2,475 were lost, and the 269 survivors were picked up by the escorting destroyers."

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Yamato on trials in 1941

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Yamato Exploding as she capsizes in 1945​

The mushroom cloud rose four miles into the air and could be seen from over 120 miles away on Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's four main islands.
 
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Her final mission was as part of Operation Ten-Go following the invasion of Okinawa on 1 April 1945. She was sent on a suicide mission (commanded by Admiral Seiichi Ito) to attack the US fleet supporting the US troops landing on the west of the island. On 6 April Yamato and her escorts, the light cruiser Yahagi and 8 destroyers, left port at Tokuyama. They were sighted on 7 April by American submarines as they exited the Inland Sea southwards. The U.S. Navy launched 386 aircraft to intercept the task force, and the planes engaged the ships starting at 12:30 that afternoon. Yamato took 8 bombs and 12 torpedo hits before, at about 14:23, she capsized to port and her aft magazines detonated. She sank while still some 200 km from Okinawa. Of her crew 2,475 were lost, and the 269 survivors were picked up by the escorting destroyers."[/i]
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The attack on Yamato was devised after it took more than 6 hours to sink her sister ship, Musashi in which the US aircrafts concentrated on one side of the ship overloading the automatic drain pump which led to her capsize.
 
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