Yamato's Final Battle

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The legendary Yamato. The largest battleship in the world. She displaced 72,808 tons and was 263 meters or 863ft long. Her main guns could fire shells weighing 1.5 tons but despite her impressive size and armament, she was to be defeated. By 1945 Japan was desperate and had sent their leviathan to its doom on a one way mission with orders to beach and fight to the end. But even this final mission was cut short by over 200 American planes. Their sheer numbers stopped her in her tracks, sending her to the bottom of the sea.
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[@baguettedog3495]

hola

[@GaryJones69420]

Neuron activity

[@Yamato_Preset]

Yarnhub Thanks For Making This Video Just Made My Day🥲🥲😁😁😊😊🙏🙏

[@MdMvincent]

Finally Yamato story

[@netfox9855]

Hehehe

[@heanvisalseyhak9487]

Building the Yamato is like forging the ultimate sword while everyone use machine gun

[@bemusedpanda8875]

Until Pearl Harbour, all navies believed that naval battles were to be fought by battleships with carriers acting as supporting vessels. Once the Americans realised the true power of carriers, they began churning them out like sausages in their shipyards.

[@sirmiles1820]

@@bemusedpanda8875 Definitely love sausages but not from shipyards

[@Enterprise6126]

@@bemusedpanda8875 the Japanese realized the power of the carrier before the us did just look at pearl harber it was a massive hit to the us navy but the main Japanese target was the carriers battleships were far below carriers of the target list However no carriers were in port but if they had waited a day uss enterprise would have been in port

[@analex4044]

Stop using this sentence

[@heanvisalseyhak9487]

@@analex4044 so?

[@thenotorious_kermito4416]

"The resulting mushroom cloud is seen from mainland Japan." That honestly is a erie line considering what happened at the end of the war. It just foreshadows what's going to happen.

[@stevemc01]

Eerie indeed… it was basically Yamamoto’s “sleeping giant” quote. If they had a war against the US, a timer would run to the point where they were effectively done for. That timer ran out here because, as mentioned, “it was the last major naval operation of Japan before the end of the war.” They couldn’t count on their powerful navy because the war had essentially cost them their entire navy. History has a weird way of working things.

[@thenotorious_kermito4416]

@@stevemc01 Very weird indeed

[@maximaldinotrap]

@@stevemc01 No, the timer ran out at Midway and became more and more obvious as the war went on.

[@SCP--fj2jr]

@@maximaldinotrap *Even so, they were living on borrowed time.*

[@maximaldinotrap]

@@SCP--fj2jr Well yeah, never said they weren't

[@super-kamarigaming7907]

My Great Uncle served on the IJN Musashi (sister ship of the Yamato) when it was bombed. He survived the war with his left lung gone and one of his arms blown off. He later went to found a text book supply company for public schools. He donated money to his hometown library every year. He also became an instructor of pottery. I never met him when I could remember, but my mother told me that when he held me ad a baby, I smiled at him and he smiled back. He passed away in his sleep around 10 years ago.

[@turbochargedtrex]

He's one of the crew that survived Leyte gulf?

[@super-kamarigaming7907]

@@turbochargedtrex I believe so.

[@WarhammerWings]

@@super-kamarigaming7907 Remarkable!

[@ianmorris4922]

R.I.P. brother man. ☮️🩵🖖🏻✝️♾️🕉🪬⚛️

[@jacobridgeway2849]

If only we could hear his stories.

[@randommobilegaming4624]

How the animation changed over time is something that amazes me. This is almost movie like and I am proud of the progression in content that this channel has made ever since I started watching and I look foward to future projects.

[@trollage9006]

USA: wanna hear a joke? Japan: what? USA: midway Japan: I don't get it USA: and you never will

[@gaijinmq-9when951]

Because they won’t be there to get it Nice job pilot

[@kevind3974]

Us: wanna hear an even better one Japan: no Us: last stand of the tin cans Japan: fuck you For those who don’t know the Yamato and her contingent was beat by mostly just 3 fletcher class destroyers and a couple other very low on ammunition ships/plains during the battle off Samar. The Yamato lost to ships not even half its size that where completely outnumbered and outgunned Biggest navel underdog win in history

[@rogermetzger7335]

By that point in the war, the effectiveness of the carrier-based Allied warplanes combined with the increasing skill of the men who flew them was beyond anything anyone on either side of the conflict could have even imagined in 1941. "Awoke a sleeping giant", indeed!

[@parvezshaikh9082]

Whenever I hear about Yamato , it makes me sad. Such a mighty ship got wasted. No one saw her full potential.

[@silasisaspicyboi7458]

Although it’s absolutely for the best

[@7r47ufchfyw7twguwgu]

Yeah like look at bismarck he may of sunk but at what cost? The royal navy's pride The mighty hood

[@brendankelly2653]

Same as the HMS Sydney, the Nazis relied on deception to destroy her. In Western Australia, Geraldton. There's a statue of a woman pointing in the direction of the sea, where HMS Sydney fell in service with its 600+ crewman, no one survived. The Nazis ship, was a very deceptive looking battle ship, rules of engagement where that a ship can only fire on another ship if they can see their flag. The Nazis ship (Komoran) didn't raise their flag until the HMS Sydney was close enough for massive ship destroying underwater guns where in range. The rest is history.

[@bkjeong4302]

This applies to ANY WWII-era battleship.

[@takebacktheholyland9306]

@@bkjeong4302 Other than the enterprise. I think I'm gonna go out of a limb and say it might've gotten too much for that matter

[@StephenLuke]

RIP To the 97 US navy men and airmen, and 4,137 Imperial Japanese navy men and airmen who were killed in Operation Ten-Go

[@glenchapman3899]

And really absolutely all for nothing.

[@pedrocarvalho5883]

Hi there! I've been following you for some time. I have to say that you do a tremendous job and you keep getting better. I would like to make a request. Can you do a video about the battle off Samar? The one where taffy 3 engaged admiral kurita fleet? It would be interesting taken into account the disparity of force between the two sides and the heroic actions of taffy 3. Thanks!

[@thomasmiddlebrooke1012]

YES. DO IT!!! 😁

[@michaelnewton1332]

Japan: "The YAMATON IS UNSINKABLE!!!" America: "Hahahahahaha airplanes go brrrrrrrrrrrr!!!"

[@hurricano471]

amazing video! the detail on the ships and the escorting destroyers and light cruiser was cool, with all the different guns animated. the only thing i noticed was the 12.7cm guns rapid firing like the 25mm guns, which made me laugh lol. i look forward to seeing more naval videos in the future. also as a suggestion, the 100th/442nd infantry Nisei banzai charge in the Vosges in 1944.

[@Sky_Guy]

11:19 Whoops! That's one fast-firing 127mm gun!

[@zerdtheg3995]

Lol fr

[@theheavytonk928]

The 127’s embracing the dakka fr

[@Dumbbrick-yy7tb]

What KZbin teaches me faster than school. This channel specifically

[@fighter5583]

"What is there to fear with the power of the mighty Yamato on your side?" Answer: A massive horde of aircraft.

[@HeIsAnAli]

_Torpedo the Yamato. Torpedo the Yamato _*_again._*_ And finally _*_SINK THE YAMATO!_*

[@WhoeverThisManIs20.14]

Here's a fact, Yamato did less impact on the war than HMS Prince of Wales or the Bismarck. Bismarck made a blow to British morale by sinking HMS Hood, HMS Prince of Wales damaged Bismarck which helped the British find her because her shell cause an oil leak on the Bismarck. Bismarck became a problem to the British not because the ship is harder to sink, but because it is hard to find.

[@matthewlok3020]

In terms of impact, Yamato was closer to the Tirpitz

[@WhoeverThisManIs20.14]

@@matthewlok3020 Yeah...the Lone Queen of the North...the British decided to sink the ship because Tirpitz is a potential threat.

[@bkjeong4302]

Bismarck and Prince of Wales were irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, especially since the British could simply have sent carriers to Denmark Strait and attacked Bismarck with impunity had they’d been smarter about it, rendering both of the battleships impotent. Honestly the ONLY WWII-era generation battleships to ever do anything to merit their existence were Washington and Duke of York.

[@notthefbi7932]

Always wondered how it would have handled in a ship to ship battle, pretty dominant Bismarck vs Yamato, that would have been interesting 🤔

[@justarandomguylol6481]

Yup, would've been quite interesting

[@QwerYT4819]

The transition to the sponsors is always so clean

[@DividedByZeero]

The story of Yamato and her sisters is one of my favorite stories of WW2 from being already obsolete by their completion yet seeing combat for the first time in 1944. Shinano sunk just 11 days after commissioning, Musashi meeting her demise as quickly as her combat career started and Yamato’s suicidal charge into her demise (also a few things id like to mention, SB2C helldivers and F6F Hellcats also participated in the assault and the 127mm cannons behind the “cylinder” 25mm AA guns are not automatic)

[@oldhag2881]

The 16" guns of the New Jersey class battleships were actually superior because they were radar guided, resulting in a far greater hit probability.

[@metaknight115]

Wrong, fire control is simply the ability to tell the guns where to aim and has nothing to do with the accuracy of the guns. Yamato proved to be the more accurate of the two. -At her maximum range of 41,500 yards, Iowa displayed a shell dispersion of 600-800 yards -At her maximum range of 46,000 yards, Yamato showed a dispersion of 440-550 yards. This was proven in combat as well. During their only surface engagement where Iowa and New Jersey tracked down and fired upon a small convoy during Operation Hailstone, Iowa only managed to sink the training cruiser Katori with her 16-inch cannons at 14,500 yards, while New Jersey failed to score a single hit with her main guns, only contributing to the sinking of the destroyer Mailkaze and the armed trawler Shonan Maru with her 5-inch secondaries. It is worth that Iowa and New Jersey's crews were haisily trained to get the battleships into service as fast as possible, which does explain their underwhelming performance, though doesn't entirely excuse their piss poor shooting. Meanwhile, Yamato proved to be quite the sharpshooter off Samar. She first scored a debated hit/near miss on the escort carrier White Plains at 34,500 yards, the longest ranged naval hit if the 18.1-inch shell indeed make physical contact with White Plains (the shell exploded underneath, but some sources claim that the shell scraped off her hull before exploding underneath). Afterwards, at 20,300 yards she fired at the destroyer Johnston, scoring three hits with her main guns and three with her 6.1-inch secondaries, shredding the superstructure, cutting her speed to 17 knots, disabling three of her five 5-inch guns, and later splitting Johnston in two while under fire from a destroyer line. After being forced out of the battle of 20 minutes by destroyer torpedoes, she targeted the escort carrier Gambier Bay, scoring hit after hit with her 28.1-inch guns, most fatally a waterline hit that flooder her engine room and severely cracked her hull, immediately cutting her speed to 10 knots as she gradually slowed until left dead in the water, eventually succumbing to flooding damage and capsizing. Yamato finally targeted the destroyer Hoel with her 6.1-inch guns, contributing to Hoel's sinking alongside numerous other warships. Yamato slaps Iowa virtually every time in a daylight engagement, holds the advantage in a night battle, and would probably loose in a battle with poor weather.

[@killman369547]

Wrong, they were superior because they had higher muzzle velocity. Higher velocity is more important than shell diameter when it comes to armor penetration.

[@logandance4644]

Im pretty sure it wasn't the Emperor, but his generals who ordered the Yamato on the suicide mission. I don't think the Emperor did much in military things except look for updates, which is probably why people were so surprised when he suddenly came out and ordered that his generals surrender after the Nagasaki bombing.

[@dimasgirl2749]

We'll never know for sure how much Hirohito was involved in the decision making. Though I'm pretty sure he wasn't purely a figurehead.

[@Commander_35]

Yamato: You Planes: Mosquitos Anti Air Guns: Cheap Insect Killer that you bought in ebay

[@rockstarJDP]

❤️ you Yarnhub, just amazing as always! Not just the animations but the way they're shot and timed with the narrative, and I also love how you consider different perspectives from all sides. You've outdone yourselves on this one, well done!

[@dc1397]

It would be interesting to hear the backstory of Captain Aruga. How he became the captain of the Yamato. What an enormous honor that must have been.

[@squiremuldoon5462]

I don’t understand how anyone could have survived that, much respect.

[@BlazingLucario]

Yarnhub, I am glad you posted this on the same day that Yamato sank, it is unfortunate that it was destroyed, I would like to see the giant battleship in real life but at least we get to see it in movies and video games, you are as always the best channel to watch cool, stunning and dazzling animations of ships, planes and vehicles, maybe one day you can talk about a Motorsport history, preferably my favorite Motorsport history, the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans

[@pedroarochasilva7714]

There is a model of the Yamato in the Kure Naval Museum, in Japan. It's not a 1:1 scale reproduction, but it is at least 40 feet long. That's the second-best thing, I guess

[@EdwardChan.999]

Fun Fact: It is predicted that Yamato will be rebuilt in the year 2199 as a spaceship. The project is named "Star Blazers".

[@invadegreece9281]

*UCHUU SENKAN YAMATOOOOOOO*

[@thelmagreenwood1429]

Why so far into the future?

[@EdwardChan.999]

@@thelmagreenwood1429 Because Japan has bad economy XD

[@HeIsAnAli]

@@thelmagreenwood1429 It’s called a _Space Battleship Yamato_ reference.

[@田中久和-n5e]

リアルな動画、感動しました！有賀艦長です。

[@odd-ysseusdoesstuff6347]

I love this ep! The changes are great, yet subtle! Love it Yarnhub!

[@z23sensei99]

77yrs after she lost we still remember her as a mighty ship

[@dannyengineer9862]

So it was the IJN Yamato after all. Fun fact: if you stood to close to the main cannons when the fired they would kill you because of the sound.

[@thecommonsenseguy7935]

Not so fun fact. Lol

[@bkjeong4302]

This is actually a problem with battleship guns in general. American battleships had a similar issue where the blasts of the big guns firing would rip off the clothes of people standing some distance away (as the captain of South Dakota found out the hard way)

[@dannyengineer9862]

@@thecommonsenseguy7935 Well not a fun fact to the guys who found that out the hard way.

[@khyronthethunderhawg6577]

With the Corsairs attacking, this looks like the flashback scene for Skipper from Planes.

[@pogi_vinz9212]

1:30 man that sailor is sweating from all that gaming and action at the sea.

[@brianthompson1838]

I think of saving private Ryan when they have the upper hand : don't shoot! Let em burn!

[@LifeLessGaymer]

Imagine the destruction that could have been caused with the Yamato and the Bismark fighting alongside eachother.

[@douglasgray1648]

It was impressive to look at and on paper, but it had a number of design flaws. The giant guns created such shock waves on deck that you could not use smaller anti-aircraft guns effectively. So lack of adequate anti-aircraft defense was one problem. The armament was thick in most places but thinner and more vulnerable than others. The torpedo system had defects. Fire suppression system was not well designed.

[@41.huynhucthanh89]

I like that the sailor was playing World of war ships

[@ronniewestherly3435]

The shells the Japanese fired from the main guns at the planes was basically giant shot gun shells

[@anatoleondulet4881]

The comment "it would be the last major naval operation of Japan" is a bit funny knowing that, after the battle of Leyte, Japan had almost no more ships. Thanks from France.

[@HubiKoshi]

It's quite a testament to where warfare was going to head that the two kings of battleships, Bismarck and Yamato were both doomed by airplane attacks.

[@Snowboarder16]

That was a beautiful ship

[@gogrape9716]

It was like bringing a knife to a gunfight...

[@scootergeorge7089]

Yamato's final battle was at Leyte Gulf. She was sunk on a suicide mission to Okinawa.

[@jollyjohnthepirate3168]

All these men were needlessly sacrificed to preserve the honor of old samurai who hid in bunkers back in Japan.

[@tarn1135]

My only regret is that we couldn’t sink the Yamato twice.

[@lonewolf286]

Was the Japanese battleship bigger than Bismarck?

[@LianmuanUTTDofficial]

yes

[@matthewlok3020]

And it wasn’t the Emperor that stepped in to convince Ito to take up the mission, it was Admiral Ryunosuke Kusaka, convincing Ito by “spearheading the special attack by 100 million”

[@Spudtron98]

I have no idea how anyone even survived the explosion. The pressure wave must've been apocalyptic.

[@hillfortherstudios2757]

Really great animation quality!

[@nemesis196304]

When speaking of Yamato , the Musashi should also mentioned as they were basically twins that were shit on by some big birds and borh ended up feeding the fish. Different battles for sure but same eventual outcome, they both died in vain.

[@showcaseofplanecrazy9993]

All of the things in the video has really good graphic's keep doing more please!!

[@thewhitefeathergaming2640]

Yarnhub I really want you guys to do a video about zeppelins in World War 1.

[@jimwilliams3517]

Excellent graphics and exceptionally excellent story telling. This is Fantastic!!!

[@hmk5123]

Battleships essentially became obsolete with the introduction of the aircraft carrier. Much like how the introduction of the machine gun made the calvary obsolete. Just one invention can destroy thousands of years of tradition.

[@andrenguyen5194]

Legit video except there is one ☝️ problem, the F4U Corsair did participate in the attack that sank the Yamato, but no Corsairs were actually shot down during the assault. The Corsairs however nonetheless did contribute up to 6 bomb 💥 hits on the Yamato and at least one bomb hit on another Japanese ship nearby and helped suppress AA fire while suffering 0 losses on this mission. However, there were far more different kinds of planes that also attacked the Yamato on that same assault but they are the ones who suffered losses, the US lost 10 planes during the sinking of the Yamato, they are: 3 Hellcats, 4 Hell Divers, and 3 Avengers something like that.

[@glenchapman3899]

But remember only three were actually shot down. The rest got caught in the explosion at the end.

[@junpinedajr.8699]

Ironically,it fid not played any major part in the battles the IJN fought,the Yamato is just in the end a White Elephant.

[@fanofhistory8017]

Everyone. Its not the biggest after all. If we count right. In WWII There was bigger battleship. And it was Iowa (270 meters long) wich is more than yamato (263 meters long). And even in cold war soviets made bigger

[@PP-iq7co]

I think the Yamato had the most water displacement which means it was bigger

[@fanofhistory8017]

@@PP-iq7co when historians are talking About this ship they doesnt talk how much water displacement it has. Like titannic. It was the biggest of her time becouse it had +- 25 meters more than other ships. And it had almost same size as other ships like Maurentania.

[@fanofhistory8017]

@@PP-iq7co its like people. Biggest man Alive isnt the most Fat but the one who is highest. Biggest building same. There is something allways main what makes something bigger.

[@prodog69420]

Iowa was only longer, Yamato was bigger in every other dimension

[@akinloluwaakinsekeji2919]

Pls make a modern realistic 3D version of this same story 😊

[@vijayramaniah4670]

Great narration indeed.

[@Yankee1610]

What’s next? The story of Musashi? Maybe even the story for the atomic bomb? I’m just ready for da next yarnhub video :)

[@jaybee9269]

Remarkably bad AA on that ship compared to, say, an ‘Iowa’. Those 25mm guns were particularly bad.

[@LordOrdnance]

Imperial army and imperial navy were on dispute back then. There was no good cooperation between them. They blamed each other. Maybe operation ten-go was the army pressure to navy to make some significant move with less resource.

[@meejinhuang]

Musashi was just as big. She too was sunk by planes.

[@praveenkumarkudroli2629]

My favourite battleship Inn Yamato 🇯🇵❤️🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@bonnieanimatronic3180]

Cat casually chilling on the deck

[@NHC685]

Yyyeeeeee YAMATO! One of my favourite Battleship! Greetings from the Philippines!

[@oliverscott7424]

I watched a movie called Midway and from I read from the translation is Yamamoto. Some English words are over spelt, but this one is under spelt.

[@JasonSamuray]

the amount of money steel and time spent in there creation of the great Yamato ship was deliberately painful and bitter, that's why in the anime the sadness of the Japanese reflects their defeat of the war😢

[@troyraymund8256]

this was the golden age for the American fighter pilots, such legends

[@cptray-steam]

Damn the only thing that crosses my mind is, the number of human lives taken that day. People who had families, and not just the Japanese but also the American Pilots who were shot down. It's weird to know that those people could have been us too. Just a different birthdate and parent and you could have found yourself in a drastically different life. I wonder how many of those sailors aboard the Yamato wanted to just go home and see their family. Was the war really worth fighting for? Sure, for the Japanese a fighting spirit meant great honor and such. But what's more important honor, or family. I feel a certain feeling I am unable to describe, just the thought of being in these people shoes not only puts fear in my heart but also something else... It raises many questions also...

[@KlippedYou]

Amazing, just purley indescribeably amazing!

[@sourodeepsarker7879]

Thankyou for making the video of yamato battleship

[@saywhat664]

Admin. Spruce had wishing of battleship to battleship fight as finale of Yamato but of course it was denied.

[@kitply1304]

Our Yamato Our Tomato 🍅

[@dudermam]

But she wasn't fully operational...and was rushed through testing!

[@frazuppi4897]

is not like the emperor decided, he counted zero, the high navy ranking ufficial decide to do this last attack

[@primarchayanamisrequious7946]

She will always be my favorite ship, a ship built unlike many. Imbued with the heart of a country for which she showed honor till the very end. A magnificent spectacle of a power that went as quickly as it came. A relic of a time in darkness, but one that is not forgotten.

[@charleskavoukjian3441]

Wait it’s what he expected, but not what he prepared for? Did he pass on training his fleet or something because he felt they could handle the Americans?

[@Ben-rz5wl]

Wow, great video.

[@polar8469]

Amazing work, as always, wanted to ask, do you guys your own background soundtracks or you take them from somewhere?

[@hydorah]

Hallway? Floor? Roof? Ground? Unfamiliar parts of a ship...

[@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370]

Imagine if the Yamato actually arrived to the battles it couldn't IRL.

[@pressftopayrespect1204]

Yarnhub,could you make a video about Witold Pilecki?

[@ronalddechosa3048]

Huge!japan battleship,.but sad to hear'evn if this ship is tough,the waters owned'him in the bottom!!🔥🔥🔥🎇

[@juvykatipunan5110]

Fun fact : did you know that all the destroyers around Yamato are the last ships of the japanese navy 😀

[@FEDERAL_INTELLIGENCE_BASE]

Yarnhub tryna save time by using the same video clip

[@kiryukazuma1308]

I recommend the 2005 movie "Otokotachi no Yamato" (men of the yamato) for those interested in seeing more of the super battleship. It isn't exactly centered around Yamato herself however, rather, the men who served aboard her, from the Battle of Leyte Gulf, all the way to the end during operation Ten-Go; a 1/3 replica of Yamato (from what i remember) was even built for the film! A warning for those faint of heart, there are some graphic scenes (think of saving private ryan), if you don't like that, then I discourage that you watch it for your own sake.

[@steveguild871]

I have seen clips of that movie on YT. You are right, it was very graphic. Thought the movie was well done.

[@itapuan35]

One of the best scenes for me is (spoiler) When the fisherman agrees to take the girl to where the Yamato sank, he sees the ship itself before his eyes, at this moment onion-cutting ninjas entered my room!

[@HappiKarafuru]

Yes, it abit gruesome movie to watch since there a gore

[@mgr_video_productions]

And the Dogfights episode Death of the Japanese Navy as well

[@LeviGleichenhaus]

Great movie

[@willmorrell488]

That magazine explosion was so powerful it knocked out several of the attacking American planes out of the sky. Ironically its explosions were more effective in destroying US aircraft than its entire armament.

[@joshuaolejasz9590]

I remember hearing that only 3 planes fell to AA, while 7 fell to the mag explosion

[@pedroarochasilva7714]

The proverbial "let's take as many as we can with us"...

[@red_d849]

ok yeah no thats funny

[@thalmoragent9344]

@@pedroarochasilva7714 True. Yamato wasn't gonna go down without dragging some down with her

[@Marc816]

I read that the explosion of the Yamato's powder magazines was 10% as powerful as the explosion of the Little Boy.

[@Eidolon1andOnly]

Love this channel more than any other history channel. The animation just gets more and more stunning and the content is always top notch.

[@captainallermen]

Me too

[@cleverusername9369]

Not that it's a competition, but Oversimplified is also excellent. Way less detailed animations, hence the name, but fantastically presented history documentaries that are both informative, easily digestible, and often hilarious.

[@Yamato_Preset]

@@cleverusername9369 Ja

[@captainallermen]

@@cleverusername9369 can't disagree with you

[@mikewizz1895]

Agreed

[@suspiciouscheese4518]

“At 13:33, in a desperate attempt to keep the ship from capsizing, Yamato's damage control team counter-flooded both starboard engine and boiler rooms. This mitigated the danger but also drowned the several hundred crewmen manning those stations, who were given no notice that their compartments were about to fill with water.” Just a little tidbit I found while reading up on this.

[@AlbertWillHelmWestings2618]

damn real shame they had to go in such a way.

[@zbarba]

That is really fucked up

[@forrestgumball]

Bruh moment

[@red_d849]

poor guys holy shit

[@thalmoragent9344]

Damn, I know they were Japanese Sailors but crap man, that's tragic

[@Kamina.D.Fierce]

I feel sorry for those sailors and officers aboard those ships during that last operation of the Yamato. It wasn't even a kamikaze run. It was just sending them to die in the most pointless manner possible since it was a flat out fact that their force stood no chance at doing even the tiniest bit of significant damage to the Allied navy that was steaming ever closer toward mainland Japan by then.

[@GetDougDimmadomed]

It was the last generation bound by the Honor Code.

[@Kamina.D.Fierce]

@@GetDougDimmadomed Oh I know. Don't misunderstand me. I'm not trying to criticize or belittle them or their honor and courage as soldiers. It's the moronic high command that sent them on the mission (again, pointlessly) and let them all get blown to bits and almost all die knowing full well that there was literally zero chance they could have accomplished ANYTHING significant.

[@Juliet1106Tango]

There are stories that despite orders to only give Yamato enough fuel to get to Okinawa, the yard workers gave her every ounce of fuel they could spare so were to survive, she could make it home

[@Hello-tl4rm]

Jeez the emperor was not a good commander...

[@hamurodesertfolf7901]

@@Hello-tl4rm in face emperor irohito he has not thing to do with it but Tojo oh boy surely he did alot and he is the one start the war not the emperor

[@joshuabrown3525]

An American veteran of that attack later admitted that it scarred him for life. He felt horrible for bombing a vessel full of kids. A Japanese survivor stated that he was told that to prevent flooding, they had to seal hatches closed. There were men down there looking up at him when he closed them, and it meant certain death for them. He said after that "War can be so brutal". Seeing it from both sides makes it even more tragic when you think about us.

[@vexile1239]

May they all who served in that conflict find the peace that their lives denied them in the next

[@jamesknight3070]

The first duty is to the ship, which can necessitate sealing people in flooding compartments, but ultimately allow the ship and everyone else to survive.

[@Th3Kingism]

"It's a good thing that war is so cruel, lest men grow too fond of it" - General Robert E. Lee

[@dapperfield595]

6:07 Note the empty anti-aircraft guns in front of the main batteries. Because the Japanese had the ingenious idea of using their main guns as AAA, nearby anti-aircraft guns could not be crewed. Though I doubt it would've changed the outcome by even a margin, Japanese 25mm guns were horrible during WW2.

[@gibusspy5544]

Japanese AA was pretty shitty during the war.

[@WolfeSaber9933]

They were box feed, compare to chains or even the clips the Bofors use.

[@hyperion5692]

Well the Japanese aren't known for having the greatest AA systems after all. You know how shitty they are when the number of U.S planes got taken down by the Yamato's explosion is even higher than the number of U.S aircraft got shot down by the AA.

[@kammmmal211]

@@hyperion5692 that's ironic in a lot of ways

[@vietta6424]

Japanese AA was fine, it was good before the war and only got obsolete later on, AA wasn't actually meant to shot down planes but just to mitigate what damage they could have done without them, and considering the fact that the Yamato survived the first wave with superficial damage, I'd say they did their job just fine.

[@BensWatchClub]

The production quality of these videos is ridiculously good. Well done to all involved.

[@jmseipp]

Huh? None of the characters look Japanese!

[@CodingK1d]

@@jmseipp Who cares?

[@jmseipp]

@@CodingK1d Anyone who has an interest in actual history! It doesn’t look believable when you make the Japanese sailors look like Caucasian people. Imagine this same film maker made a film about the German equivalent battleship the Bismarck, and all of the German sailors look JAPANESE! Wouldn’t that seem really strange! Ridiculous! Apparently they were terrified they’d be attacked and accused of making them look stereotyped or whatever but that’s ridiculous. Asian people look Asian and Caucasian people look Caucasian. I lived in Japan for years. I know very well what Japanese people look like and none of the Japanese sailors in this animated film even look remotely Japanese.

[@user-pn3im5sm7k]

Good to see you here Ben, I'm a big fan! Great timepiece channel👍🏻

[@juggernaut7_]

3:08 You will notice that the Catalina is flying, yet its engines are not running. This is not a mistake. Like any red-blooded American plane, it is flying through sheer determination, willpower, and patriotism.

[@lostmusic99]

FPS and Rotation speed are same 😪

[@t1e6x12]

@@lostmusic99 Nah. Those propellers arent moving.

[@FrostyyMcToasty]

Don't forget the sheer amount of FREEDOM

[@Butterzzzz]

I wonder if it was standard practice to kill the engines and glide for a bit to kill sound lol

[@pedroarochasilva7714]

'MURICA!

[@DatVehicleGuy]

This is some of the highest quality content on KZbin, and I absolutely adore it.

[@arkdeso2864]

fun fact: the IJN Yukikaze, one of the escort destroyer in this operation, participated in all major operation and survived the war she was partially sunk by a natural disaster and chinese governement destroyer her (sad) she was called "the miracle ship" or "the unsinkable ship"

[@JoeMama-jd2ns]

no not sad

[@arkdeso2864]

@@JoeMama-jd2ns why? xD

[@elektro36]

She is quite cute too

[@tedd1180]

@@elektro36 nanoda

[@ConsciousApostle999]

It's a reoccuring trend with unsinkable ships...

[@orneryokinawan4529]

My grandma had family on this behemoth. They were of the few who survived.

[@SMarie-zk9oj]

@@man-od5is their where survivors some managed to slide off the ship or jumped off to survive the explosion

[@7r47ufchfyw7twguwgu]

U know nothing @man

[@turbochargedtrex]

@@man-od5is 276 sailors survived

[@novemberdawn8145]

11:50-12:00 is actually terrifying. I don't know why but I'd always assumed the Yamato never saw combat. Excellent video as always :)

[@lordwintertown8284]

If those timestamps are a scary thought to you then don't read up on the HMHS Britannic which only loss of life was related to ahem.. BTW you may also now have submechanophobia which is exactly that fear.

[@ShawneeLad117]

She technically never did truly. The ship spent most of its career in port because she needed so much fuel to run that Japan couldn't afford to fuel it. Her first battle would've been Midway, but the carriers were sunk before she arrived and they ordered her back to Japan. The only combat she ever saw against surface ships was in Leyte Gulf when she engaged Taffy 3 as part of Center Force. She ended up taking enough damage that she had to divert and leave the battle.

[@Farsightful]

it sort of never did. There is a piece of yamato armor pierced by a US gun "after it was defeated and shot at point blank range" otherwise they couldn't go through on an naval to naval combat. On one hand i can only congratulate the Us for using carriers to sink the yamato, on the other hand exposing a piece of armor they pierced post battle is pathetic.

[@Cailus3542]

@@ShawneeLad117 Not quite. Yamato didn't take real damage during the surface action at Leyte Gulf. The Japanese withdrawal was due to the rather spectacular failure of Admiral Kurita to arrange his screening destroyers properly and press the advantage when he had it. Yamato did sink a US escort carrier with its guns, one of the longest naval gunfire hits in history.

[@bkjeong4302]

@@Cailus3542 Kurita was right to retreat in the grand scheme of things. Yes, he actually could have wiped out Taffy 3, but this ignores that the air attacks were coming from Taffy 1 and 2 as well (and with actual aerial torpedoes to boot), and that the rest of Seventh Fleet was moving north to intercept. On top off that, even if Kurita gets to the landing beaches, the American landings would have been over by then (they had been landing since October 20th), with far too many American troops and supplies already ashore and headed inland for a naval attack to have any major impact on American land operations.

[@TheGreenArmy_Animations]

The planes that dive bombed on the Yamato were SB2C Helldivers, not Corsairs. By the way, the animation is very well done, actually shows the end of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

[@vincentlefebvre9255]

At least the torpedo planes were avengers in the video.