Just a quick update to let y'all know that I recently completed a major update to the Yamato/Musashi photo gallery. I have added dozens of new...
I confess I am clueless about the newer devices and how they interact with various internet sites. If you use a PC or a laptop it will work fine.
The website has now been updated to remove all ads (NO MORE POP-UPS!!) http://www.battleshipyamato.com
The real problem was that the pumping control room was taken out by a bomb fairly early on so that the starboard torpedo blisters could no longer...
Well, maybe not quite. Since my initial post I read that the Skate's torpedoes that hit Yamato were set (for some reason) to run shallow as for...
Thanks Symphonic Poet! Pure poetry! :D So the extra-wide beam and flat bottom of Yamato was not only useful for accessing shallower ports and...
Yamato was hit by several torpedoes from USS Skate in 1943 and shipped 3,000 tons of water, if I recall correctly. The attack demonstrated that...
I have always found this photo of Yamato dodging bombs and torpedoes in the Inland Sea in March 1945 to be quite remarkable. She is undoubtedly...
Hmmmm....I'll get away from the unprovable assertions of which "soldier" was best and give my opinion on which Army was best. My vote goes to the...
Here is a link to wikipedia page on Yamato's big guns. Photos of each type of shell are at the bottom of the page. Be sure to click on the armor...
A salient point about Yamato's armor piercing shells is in order here. Yamato hit White Plains from a distance of 19.65 miles with her third...
Well we can already surmise that Ed from the Bosamar website will attempt to cherry-pick individual out-of-context quotes from after-action...
As an aside, if this fellow Ron who started the thread is still with us, could he - or an Admin - please CORRECT the typo in the thread title...
Assuming you are talking about White Plains and Gambier Bay, neither of which was still when hit, what about Yamato's delivering the kills shots...
Here is a link to a looooong thread about this testing of Yamato's armor. The main dispute seems to be over the angle at which the armor was...
Thanks. I thought you might have meant cruising range. I know that Iowa's 16" shells could penetrate Yamato's armor and obviously the reverse is...
Not sure what you are referring to as far as "range", but if you're talkng about the range of Iowa's 16" guns it was about 42,000 yards max while...
You are wrong. Yamato hit White Plains at Samar from a distance of 19.65 MILES (34,000+ yards). You can go to my website and see photos taken...
Iowa may or may not have won, but Yamato's performance at Leyte Gulf exceeded all expectations. As Robert Lundgren's new book shows, yamato's...
Hi folks - Several years ago I created an Internet Gallery of all known archive photos of these two great battleships and the battles they were...
