How the Mighty Yamato Was Sunk – The End of the Big Gun Era

Описание: In the final months of WWII, Japan’s super-battleship Yamato—the largest warship ever built—sails from Tokuyama on Operation Ten-Go, a desperate one-way mission to Okinawa. With fuel for a single trip, the plan is to break into the American fleet, devastate the invasion force, and then beach the ship as a floating fortress to fight to the last shell.

But the moment Yamato departs, U.S. submarines spot the “big fish” and alert headquarters. Instead of meeting Yamato with battleships, Admirals Spruance and Mitscher unleash the new era of naval warfare: carrier air power. Hundreds of aircraft from Task Force 58 strike in coordinated waves—fighters, dive bombers, and torpedo bombers—systematically targeting Yamato’s port side to force a fatal list and capsize the giant.

Despite fierce anti-aircraft fire and desperate damage control, Yamato is crippled, slowed, and overwhelmed. As it rolls over, its magazines detonate in a massive explosion that erases the symbol of Japan’s naval pride. Only a small fraction of the crew survives.

Yamato’s sinking becomes the violent funeral of the “Big Gun Era”—proof that in modern war, no super-weapon can survive without a supporting system, and that air superiority from aircraft carriers has replaced battleship duels forever.

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