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| IJN Yamato Class Battleship 64,027 Tons (Normal) 71,659 Tons (Full) 862'10" x | 121'1" x 32'11" Armament (1941) 3x3 18.1" main guns 4x3 6.1 guns 6x2 127mm DP guns 8x3 25mm AA guns 2x2 13.2mm AA guns Armament (1945) 3x3 18.1" main guns 2x3 6.1" guns 12 x 127mm DP guns 162 x 25mm AA guns 4 x 13.2mm AA guns Armor: Waterline Belt: 410mm Deck: 200-226.5mm Turrets: 650mm Aircraft: 2 aircraft catapults 7 seaplanes  IJN October 20, 1941  IJN October 30, 1941  USN October 24, 1944  USN March 19, 1945     USN April 7, 1945 |
Ship History Built by Kure Naval Arsenal at Kure. Laid down November 4, 1937 as "Battleship No. 1" the leading ship of the Yamato Class Battleship. Launched August 8, 1940 and four days later departs Kure for sea trials. On September 5, 1941 begins fitting out with Captain Shutoku Miyazato assigned as chief equipping officer. On October 30, 1941 undergoes more sea trials off Sukumo on Shikoku Island off Japan. On November 1, 1941 Captain Gihachi Takayanagi is assigned as chief equipping officer. On December 7, 1941 departs Kure for gunnery tests in the Suo Sea and Inland Sea and for the first time fires a full salvo from her main guns ranging to a distance of 32,500m / 35,540 yards. Yamato and sister ship Musashi were the pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) as the largest and most heavily armored battleships ever constructed with 40cm/45 Type 94 naval guns measuring 18.1" the largest naval guns used on any battleship during World War II. Wartime History On December 8, 1941 at the start of the Pacific War returns to Kure and exchanges signals with battleships from BatDiv 1 departing Hashirajima. Commissioned December 16, 1941 as Yamato 大和 meaning "Great Harmony" and a poetic name for Japan with Captain Gihachi Takayanagi in command. The battleship was registered in the Kure Naval District and assigned to the Combined Fleet, BatDiv 1 with Nagato and Mutsu. On December 21, 1941 departs Kure for Hiroshima Bay and anchors off Nagato at Hashirajima. On January 18, 1942 and January 19, 1942 conducts gunnery trails in the Inland Sea with Mutsu then returns to Kure. On February 12, 1942 departs Kure for Hashirajima and becomes the flagship for Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet. On December 17, 1942 Captain Chiaki Matsuda assumes command. On August 28, 1942 arrives Truk and serves as the flagship and headquarters of the Combined Fleet. During the Guadalcanal campaign, Yamato remains at the anchorage and does not deploy to the Solomon Islands due to fuel and ammunition shortages, restricted shallow waters and uncharted seas off Guadalcanal plus her slower speed. Sailors derisively dubbed the warship “Hotel Yamato” while languishing in the anchorage instead of engaging the enemy. On September 9, 1942 moves to a new anchorage area south of Dublon Island. On October 17, 1942 oiler Kenyo Maru arrives empty and Yamato and Mutsu each transfer 4,500 tons of fuel oil to her to use to refuel other warships. On November 1, 1942 a dinner party for all captains at Truk celebrates the Japanese victory during the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands (Battle of the South Pacific). On February 11, 1943 after a year as flagship, Admiral Yamamoto transfers his flag to Musashi at Truk. On May 1, 1943 Captain Matsuda was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral. On May 8, 1943 departs Truk bound for Yokosuka arriving five days later. PARTIAL HISTORY On July 2, 1944 at Kure five additional tripple mount 25mm anti-aircraft guns are added and the hinoki deck is replaced over the next six days. On July 8, 1944 at Kure, Yamato and Musashi embark the 49th Division, 106th Infantry Regiment and equipment then departs for Okinawa as part of Group A with CruDiv 4's ATAGO, TAKAO, MAYA and CHOKAI, CruDiv 7's KUMANO, SUZUYA, TONE and CHIKUMA, DesRon 2's light cruiser NOSHIRO plus destroyers, Accompanied by Group B including KONGO NAGATO, CruDiv 7's MOGAMI, DesRon 10's light cruiser Yahagi plus destroyers. On July 10, 1944 arrives Okinawa and CruDivs 4, 7 and DesRon 2 depart for Singapore while BatDiv 1 and its escorts proceed to Lingga Gulf. On July 17, 1944 arrives Lingga Gulf and will remain in the vicinity for three months for training with Musashi and other warships. On September 1, 1944 provisioned by Kitakami Maru. On September 15, 1944 provisioned by Kitakami Maru. On October 6, 1944 again provisioned by Kitakami Maru. On October 15, 1944 Captain Morishita is promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral. On October 18, 1944 departs Lingga and while underway the deck is camouflaged using soot from the exhaust stack and two days later arrives Brunei Bay to refuel. Black deck camouflage, intended for the night breakthrough in the San Bernardino Strait, is hastily applied to both YAMATO and MUSASHI. The main component is soot from YAMATO's stack. On October 22, 1944 embarks F1M2 Petes from Nagato and departs Brunei bound for Leyte as part of First Mobile Striking Force, First Section, Force"A" (Center Force) under the command of Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita including battleships Yamato, Musashi, Nagato, Kongō, and Haruna, heavy cruisers Atago (flagship with Vice Admiral Kurita), Maya, Takao, Chōkai, Myōkō, Haguro, Kumano, Suzuya, Tone and Chikuma, two light cruisers: Noshiro and Yahagi plus fifteen destroyers. On October 23, 1944 at 5:33am during the Battle of the Palawan Passage, heavy cruiser Atago was torpedoed and sunk in the Palawan Passage. Afterwards, Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita transfered his flag to Yamato. Battle of Leyte Gulf During the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Yamato was largely ignored by U.S. Navy warships and instead concentrated their attacks against other warships and succeeded in sinking Musashi flagship for Operation Sho-I-Go (Victory). On October 24, 1944 at 8:10am three enemy scout planes are spotted. At 10:26am opens fire on enemy planes using her main guns firing Type 3 sanshikidan rounds. Four minutes later attacked by a pair of TBF Avengers from USS Cabot that miss. At 10:47am lookouts report periscope and torpedo wakes that prove to be false but delay the fleet from reforming. At 1:31 opens fire on carrier planes from Task Group 38.3. At 1:50pm SB2C Helldiver from USS Essex (CV-9) drops two armor piercing bombs that damage the port bow abreast of gun turret no. 1. At 2:13pm spots planes and speed is increased to 22 knots. At 2:30pm attacked by 4 Hellcats plus 12 SB2C dive bombers that drop bombs. The first bomb penetrates the anchor deck, demolishes the port chain locker, explodes below the waterline and blows out a side plate, holes the bow and wrecks the mess deck. Two bombs hit turret no. 1. One creates a hole above the waterline. Another bomb penetrates through the top deck to crews quarters. Damaged, Yamato takes on 3,000 tons of sea water and a 5° list to port but damage control counter floods and reduces the list to 1° but is down by the bow as Force A continues through the Sibuyan Sea and is targeted by carrier planes. At 3:30pm Admiral Kurita orders Force A to reverse course. At 5:15pm again reverses course. At 11:30pm enters San Bernardino Strait in single file. On October 25, 1944 during the Battle off Samar at 3:35am Force "A" exits San Bernardino Strait. At 4:00am off Samar changes course bound for Leyte Gulf. At 5:24 Yamato radar detects enemy planes. At 5:44 enemy carriers are spotted on the horizon, misidentified as six fleet carriers, escorted by three cruisers and two destroyers. At 5:45 opens fire on carrier planes. At 5:58am Force A opens fire on escort carriers of Taffy 3 with both of Yamato's forward turrets open fire from a distance of 20 miles and her F1M2 Pete confirms the first salvo is a hit followed by a total of three salvos then fire is shifted to the next carrier before it is covered by a smoke screen by U.S. destroyers. At 6:06am on an easterly course opens fire with her 155mm secondary guns. At 6:51am fires at a "cruiser" and scores a hit with her first salvo at a distance of more than 10 miles. At 6:54 torpedoes fired at Haruna miss but head towards Yamato that evades by turning to port and steams northward for 10 miles and disengages from battle and Kurita orders all warships north. At 9:10am nine Zeros from 201 Air Group fly over the warships. At 10:20am reverses course south towards Leyte Gulf then reverses course north and at 9:00pm enters San Bernardino Strait. On October 26, 1944 in the morning, Force A is in the Tablas Strait off Panay. At 8:00am attacked by thirty TBM Avengers from USS WASP (CV-19) and USS COWPENS (CVL-25). At 8:34am attacked by fifty SB2C Helldivers and Avengers from USS Horney (CV-12). Yamato is hit by two bombs. The first penetrates the forecastle forward and to the right of the main breakwater, demolishing nearby crew's spaces. The second bomb causes slight damage to the side of main gun turret No. 1. At 10:40am bombed by B-24 Liberators from 307th BG and Yamato and Nagato open fire with their main armament using Type 3 sanshikidan shells and claim several bombers shot down. Aboard Yamato, bomb fragments wound 60 crew including Rear Admiral Tomiji Koyanagi, Chief of Staff, Second Fleet. At 11:00am sixty carrier planes attack and sink light cruiser Noshiro. On October 27, 1944 there are no attacks and 29 crew killed in action aboard Yamato are buried at sea. On October 28, 1944 Force A arrives Brunei Bay and refuels. On November 6, 1944 Junyo and Kiso with escorts arrive with ammunition. On November 8, 1944 departs Brunei Bay with other warshsips to avoid air raids to the Pratas Islands then makes a feint via the Balabac Strait then two days later returns to Brunei Bay. On Novembe 15, 1944 BatDiv 1 is disbanded and Yamato is assigned to the Second Fleet. On November 16, 1944 departs Brunei Bay escroted by Kongo and Nagato and escorts bound for Kure. On November 21, 1944 attacked by USS Sealion (SS-215) with Kongo and destroyer URAKAZE sunk. On November 23, 1944 arrives Kure. On November 25, 1944 enters dry dock for repairs and refit with older anti-aircraft guns removed and nine batteries of triple 25mm anti-aircraft guns installed to increase her anti-aircraft defenses to two singled mounted 25mm AA guns and fifty tipple mount 25mm AA guns. That same day Captain Kosaku Aruga takes command. On January 1, 1945 Yamato, HARUNA and NAGATO are assigned to reactivated BatDiv 1, Second Fleet. On January 3, 1945 undocked. On January 15, 1945 departs Kure for Hashirajima. On February 15, 1945 BatDiv 1, Second Fleet is again deactivated and Yamato is assigned to CarDiv 1. On March 13, 1945 at Hashirajima accidentally fires on N1K2-J Shinden-Kais (George) from 343 Kokutai (343 Air Group) from Matsuyama Airfield. Afterwards, returns to Kure Harbor. On March 19, 1945 Yamato was underway in the Inland Sea during a strike by U.S. Navy (USN) carrier planes from Task Force 58 (TF-58) including USS Essex (CV-9), USS Intrepid (CV-11), USS Hornet (CV-12), USS Wasp (CV-18), USS Hancock (CV-19), USS Bennington (CV-20) and USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) attack Kure Naval Arsenal and Kure Harbor. During the attack, Yamato maneuvered to avoid bombs but several near misses exploded nearby and bomb released by a SB2C Helldiver from USS Intrepid (CV-11) hit the bridge but only causes minor damage. On March 28, 1945 at Tokuyama Navy Fuel Depot refueled by Mitsushima Maru with 1,000 tons of fuel oil and at 5:30pm departs Hashirajima bound for Sasebo but instead is recalled to Kure. On March 29, 1945 takes aboard a full load of ammunition including 1,170 shells for her 18.1" main guns, 1,620 shells for her secondary guns and 13,500 rounds of anti-aircraft ammunition plus 11.5 million rounds of small caliber ammunition and also receives fuel from destroyers Hanazuki and Asashimo. On April 1, 1945 learns of the U.S. landing on Okinawa and continues last minute preparations for action. On April 2, 1945 departs Kure to anchored at Mitajiri Bight and the next day receives an order alerting Yamato for a sortie to Okinawa. On April 4, 1945 Zeros from 332 Kokutai fly low over Yamato for anti-aircraft gun training for last minute training for the battleship's untrained crew members to prepare for aerial defense. Operation Ten-Go On April 5, 1945 at 1:59pm receives orders for Operation Ten-Go (Operation Heaven Number One): "The Surface Special Attack Unit is ordered to proceed via Bungo Suido Channel at dawn on Y-1day to reach the prescribed holding position for a high-speed run-in to the area west of Okinawa at dawn on Y-day. Your mission is to attack the enemy fleet and supply train and destroy them. Y-day is April 8th." The mission will be for the battleship to sortie to engage the U.S. warships off Okinawa then beach the island any surviving crew joining the Japanese defenders ashore. At 3:00pm Captain Aruga informs the crew of the mission. At 5:30pm 67 cadets from Eta Jima class no. 74 are sent ashore and a farewell party is held for the crew. On April 6, 1945 in the early morning at Mitajiri anchorage a floatplane delivers Vice Admiral Kusaka Ryunosuke and Commander Mikami Sakuo to confer about the mission. Meanwhile, all sick and elderly sailors are allowed to disembark. Next, Yamato proceeds to Tokuyama Oil Depot and is refueled with 3,400 tons of oil, only enough for a one-way voyage. At 3:20pm departs on her final sortie with a large banner attached to the main mast that read: "Injustice - Fairness - Law - Power - Heaven". Yamato is leading the Surface Special Attack Force with Light Cruiser Yahagi escorted by destroyers Isokaze, Hamakaze and Yukikaze, DesDiv 21's Kasumi, Hatsushimo and Asashimo, DesDiv 41's Fuyuzuki and Suzutsuki. The force plans to steam via Bungo Channel to .Kyushu then enter the East China Sea. to Okinawa. At 6:30pm a Japanese aircraft spots an enemy submarine USS Theadfin (SS-410) and the force changes course and assumes an anti-submarine formation and the enemy submarine is spotted on the surface by Isokaze. At 9:00pm the force turns to the south. At 9:44pm tracking submarine USS Theadfin (SS-410) reports the presence of the force by radio but the report is intercepted by Yamato and they are aware the force has been detected. Later, USS Hackleback (SS-295) also spots the force but is unable to attack but follows in pursuit. Battle of the East China Sea On April 7, 1945 at 2:00am passes Miyazaki on eastern Kyushu and reaches the entrance of the Osumi Kaikyo Channel at the southern end of Kyūshū then enters the East China Sea. At 6:00am launches her E13A1 Jake to patrol and at the conclusion the floatplane lands on Kyūshū. At 6:30am the force is escorted by A6M5 Zeros from 203 Kokutai that patrol in small groups for three and a half hours. At 8:32am the attack force is spotted by F6F Hellcats from USS Essex (CV-9) and escorting Zeros fail to see them or intercept. At 10:14am spotted by two PBM Mariner flying boats and three minutes later turns to engage, jamming their radios and opens fire. A minute later visual contact is lost as the Mariners enter clouds. Meanwhile, Yamato learns U.S. Navy (USN) Task Force 58 (TF-58) has been spotted 250 nautical miles away and launched carrier planes at the start of what will become known as the Battle of the East China Sea. At 11:07am Yamato radar spots planes approaching in two groups and the force increases speed to 25 knots and begins a turn and prepares for action. At 11:15am a delayed report is received that 150 enemy planes were spotted from Kikaigashima Island headed northwest. At the same moment, F6F Hellcats arrive over the Attack Force and begin circling as Yamato and Yahagi open fire and begin evasive maneuvers. Meanwhile, two groups of aircraft are approaching with overcast skies and a low cloud base that hampers efforts to visually tracking enemy planes or fire barrages. At 11:29 the force turns to 205° towards Okinawa. At 12:22pm her lookouts spot three Japanese ships heading for Amami Ōshima. At 12:32pm Yamato lookouts spot the first wave of 280 carrier aircraft including 132 fighters, 50 bombers, 98 torpedo planes from Task Group 58.1 (TG 58.1) and Task Group 58.3 (TG 58.3). Aircraft from USS San Jacinto CVL-30 attack and sink Asashimo lagging behind with engine trouble. At 12:34 Yamato opens fire on the enemy aircraft with her main guns and anti-aircraft guns. At 12:35pm stops zig-sagging and increases speed to 24 knots and fires Sanshikidan anti-aircraft shells from her main guns. During the Battle of the East China Sea, Yamato was attacked by over a thousand U.S. Navy (USN) carrier aircraft attacking in three waves. The cloud base was low and her anti-aircraft gunners were unable to achieve an adequate barrage overhead. Attacking aircraft also had trouble, fifty-three from USS Hancock never found Yamato and attacking planes were hampered by the same low cloud cover. First Wave At 12.37 Yamato was attacked by the first wave of carrier aircraft first attack wave descended out of the low cloud base 132 fighters, 50 dive-bombers and 98 torpedo bombers. 2 bombs struck her to starboard, aft of her funnel and level with the after fire control director, 5 minutes later 2 more struck her, one struck just forward of her aft 6 inch turret and the other passed through her after secondary battery control position. Both shells detonated against her 7.9 inch armored deck, there was no damage below this deck, but fires were started that were never extinguished on the deck. These flames spread and detonated the cordite in her 6" turret, the roof blown away in the explosion. The flash doors to her magazine kept the explosion from spreading. Next, Avengers made torpedo attacks with two torpedoes hitting the port side amidships. As a result, water leaked into number 8 fire room and then the port outward engine room, with the flooding initially controlled by pumps with the battleship taking a list of 6° that was counteracted by flooding her starboard outboard torpedo protection voids. There are also reports of 2 more hits during this first attack wave but these have never been confirmed. Second Wave At roughly 1:00pm Yamato was attacked by the second wave of carrier aircraft. No bombs hit her. Torpedo bombers honed in on her port side and 3 or 4 hit her very close to the first 2. Fire room 8 had already been abandoned but now the flooding was spreading to no 12 Fire room aft. The port hydraulic machinery space and the outboard port engine room were also flooded. Most other ships would have capsized. She was now listing at 16 degrees, and the loss of one shaft had reduced her speed to 18 knots. Further counter flooding to her starboard side reduced this list to about 5 degrees. This list was temporarily brought under control by a torpedo strike to her starboard side, which caused flooding to her starboard no 7 fire room. Third Wave After a 30 minute lull, the third attack wave descends out of the clouds towards Yamato as her list was starting to increase. Three bombs struck her port side amidships; another hit her port side capstan causing her anchor to fall into the sea. Even so, not one of these bombs managed to pierce her armored deck. Three torpedoes struck her seriously ruptured port side, in fact they passed straight through her open hull side and detonated in her outboard engine room - already flooded, which lead to flooding in her port inner engine room and loss of power to that shaft. Another torpedo struck her starboard amidships, causing the flooding of her starboard outer engine room. Yamato was now listing 16° and the remaining starboard areas were counter flooding, without warning to the crew members inside and hundreds of sailors died trapped inside and had no effect and her list increased to 23° and her speed was reduced to 8 knots as flooding was now uncontrollable and spreading. Sinking History Around 2:00pm all power was lost and permission was given to abandon ship. At 2:10pm Yamato rolled over and began to sink with fires from her aft 6.1" turret reaching her no. 1 magazine causing a huge explosion with a mushroom smoke cloud that was visible for 100 miles away. The explosion and smoke cloud downs a circling U.S. aircraft above. The battleship sank in the East China Sea at roughly Lat 30° 22' N Long 128° 04' E approximately 290 km / 180 miles southwest of Kyūshū. Officially, Yamato was removed from the Navy list on August 31, 1945. Fates of the Crew Yamato sank with an estimated 3,055 of her crew including captain Captain Aruga (posthumously promoted two ranks to the rank fo Vice Admiral) plus fleet commander Vice-Admiral Seiichi Itō (posthumously promoted to the rank of Admiral). Rescue A total of 276 crew members from Yamato were rescued by the surviving destroyers including Rear Admiral Nobuei Morishita, chief of staff for the second fleet and formerly captain of the battleship. Conclusions The attack began at 12:37pm with the first of three waves and lasted forty-six minutes ending at 2:23pm with Yamato sinking and exploding. During the attack, Yamato was hit by at least eleven torpedoes and six bombs. Possibly, two additional torpedoes and two additional bombs hit but they have never been confirmed. . The horizontal deck armor on Yamato protected the battleship from bombs and performed excellent. None of the eight bombs managed to pierce the deck. Forward of no. 1 turret and aft of no. 3, Yamato had no armored deck and was why she flooded badly when damaged during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Her enormous armor plating was concentrated around her central area that encompassed all vital machinery inside. Yamato's defensive torpedo bulge was air filled behind this was an inclined armor plated bulkhead that tapered down in size to her keel from 8" to 3", inboard of this there were two additional thinner water tight bulkheads, but these lacked the flexibility to deform without puncturing or cracking, when her main armor plated bulkhead was displaced inwards by an explosion. Did her torpedo defenses fail? During the attack, Yamato was struck by an estimated fourteen aerial torpedoes with seven confirmed. Seven or nine torpedoes impacted a relatively small area on the port side amidships within about 150' of each other. The U.S. Navy Mark 13 aerial torpedoes used was far more powerful than early war models. Aboard, flooding began after the second impact. After five to six torpedo hits, Yamato was in serious trouble. As the third wave began their attack, her list had begun to increase despite damage control. During the attack, Yamato's anti-aircraft defenses lacked fire coordination and were hampered by low cloud cover. Previously, the Japanese were aware of Yamato's poor anti-aircraft defense and removed her two amidships 6" gun turrets and replaced them with 25mm anti-aircraft gun batteries that were deemed to be too small in caliber for an adequate defense. As the U.S. Navy (USN) carrier aircraft approached, her 18.1" main guns fired san shiki anti-aircraft shells that when they detonated spread thousands of steel balls to damage any aircraft in the vicinity. In practice, san shiki fire was ineffective because her main turrets and 5" guns had a slow training speed. During the attacks, bomb hits destroyed or disabled her anti-aircraft guns and carrier aircraft strafed the decks killing and wounding sailors manning defenses. The exact number of torpedo strikes she received will never be precisely known, at least 150 torpedoes were released at Yamato and the battleship was hit by roughly fourteen. Previously, Musashi was hit by roughly twenty torpedoes on October 24, 1944 and the crew broke off from the main fleet and headed for a nearby island in an attempt to beach to save the battleship but instead sank. Wreckage During 1982, a Japanese expedition searched for Yamato and found some wreckage that could not be positively identified. In 1984, another Japanese expedition returned to the same area and photographed wreckage that was confirmed to be associated with Yamato by Shigeru Makino, one of the original designers. On August 1, 1985, a Japanese team using submersible Pisces II discovered Yamato broken into two pieces on the sea floor at a depth of 429.7m / 1,410'. Other sources list the depth as 340m / 1,200'. During the expedition, the submersible recovered small artifacts. The shipwreck of Yamato is broken into two pieces with a large debris field surrounding the area. The forward section including the bow shows evidence of torpedo damage is broken off past her B turret is on its starboard side. In the middle is the superstructure. The rear rear section is upside down with a propeller missing and turrets laying nearby and the keel area is crumpled. One of her anchors is missing because it fell off due to a bomb impact. In 1999 another survey of the shipwreck recorded more footage and recovers some additional small artifacts. During 2009, the Kure Chamber of Commerce and Industry announced plans to salvage parts of the shipwreck including raising one of the 18.1" main guns an the front portion of the hull with plans to fund raise for the effort. To date, no such salvage has happened. In May 2016, the shipwreck was again documented with with digital video showing the bow chrysanthemum crest, propeller and one of the detached main gun turrets. Memorials In April 1968, a memorial tower was built at Cape Inutabu on Tokunoshima Island in the Amami Islands to commemorate the Japanese Navy sailors lost during Operation Ten-Go. During May 1979, a stone monument was dedicated in the Navy graveyard at Kure memorializing the crew who died aboard Yamato. Yamato Museum (Kure Maritime Museum) is devoted to Battleship Yamato and has exhibits and displays including a 1/10 scale model of Battleship Yamato and shows a nine minute video of May 2016 dive footage of the shipwreck. Representations Yamato was the pride of Japan and still has a strong impact on Japanese culture that continues to this day as a symbolic of Japanese engineering and Naval power and represents the defeat of Japan. Many books, documentaries and movies have been spawned by Yamato including anime seres Space Battleship Yamato with three seasons released in 1974, 1978 and 1980. Released in the United States as Star Blazers with english language tracks that was first released in 1978 with wider release in 1979. During 2012, remade as Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 released in 2012 and 2014 in the United States. References IJN Battleship Yamato: Tabular Record of Movement A Glorious Way to Die covers the history of Yamato and sinking Yamamoto Wreck Discovered (down as of 2008) Naval History and Heritage Command “Operation Heaven Number One” (Ten-ichi-go)—the Death of Yamato, 7 April 1945 World War II Wrecks of the Truk Lagoon (2001) pages X (introduction), 16 (November 1943 at Truk), 99-100 (February 3, 1944 PB4Y-1 VMD-254 photo recon), 101 (map February 4, 1944), 516 (index Yamato) Contribute
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