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Named after the ancient Japanese Yamato Province, Yamato was designed to counter the numerically superior battleship fleet of the United States, Japan's main rival in the Pacific. She was laid down in 1937 and formally commissioned a week after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
Le Yamato (大和?) est un cuirassé japonais mis en service fin 1941. Construit par le chantier naval de Kure entre novembre 1937 et août 1941, il est le premier cuirassé de la classe Yamato.
The Yamato-class battleships (大和型戦艦, Yamato-gata senkan) were two battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Yamato and Musashi, laid down leading up to World War II and completed as designed. A third hull, laid down in 1940, was converted to an aircraft carrier, Shinano, during construction.
3 mars 2024 · Yamato was a massive and powerful battleship built in secrecy by Japan in 1941, but it was obsolete by the time it was launched. In 1945, it was sent on a suicide mission to Okinawa, but was intercepted and destroyed by a massive air strike from U.S. carriers.
3 juil. 2019 · Learn about the design, construction, and fate of Yamato, one of the largest and most powerful battleships ever built. Find out how Yamato participated in several campaigns during World War II and was sunk by Allied aircraft in Operation Ten-Go.
La classe Yamato (大和型戦艦, Yamato-gata senkan?) est une série de cuirassés de la Marine impériale japonaise construits et utilisés durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Déplaçant près de 73 000 tonnes à pleine charge, ces navires ont été les cuirassés les plus lourds et les plus puissants jamais construits.
4 août 2011 · The Yamato, a 71,659-ton battleship with 18.1-inch guns and 3,200-pound shells, was ordered by the emperor to Okinawa in April 1945. It was intercepted by the U.S. Fifth Fleet and destroyed by air and naval bombardment in a last epic battle.
