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During the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea a carrier plane scores a bomb hit on Yamato near the forward gun turret but did not sustain serious damage
Wartime Caption (AP) "The Yamato was under full steam when American Navy flyers trapped the Nip battlewagon in the smashing victory over the enemy. Direct Hits - Two bombs explode near the forward turret of the Japanese battleship Yamato as she flees from United States Third Fleet through Tablas Straits in the western Visayans of the Philippines"
Credit: USN  Date: October 24, 1944
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