Destruction of the unsinkable Super Battleship YAMATO. Operation Ten-ichi-Go

Japan, well, specifically Japan's wartime government under General Hideki Tojo (hanged as a "Class A" war criminal in 1948), threw away tens of thousands of Japanese lives, maybe hundreds of thousands --- maybe millions? -- in useless military and naval gestures whose principal motives were abstractions like "upholding the honor of Japan/the Army/the Navy" or "saving face," and the 3000+ sailors aboard the Yamato were less than a rounding error on the butcher's bill of Tojo's war cabinet. Although he had been compelled to resign as prime minister in mid-1944, after staggering Japanese defeats at Saipan and in the seas around the Philippines, the destruction of the Yamato can be attributed to him as the fruits of the fascist--militarist--imperialist--State Shinto/Emperor worship/Japanese racism system that he had done so very much to bring into being as a high-ranking army officer in the 1930s, committed to replacing Japan's fledgling semi-democracy with a totalitarian government at all levels below the sacred Emperor Hirohito. Shed no tears for Tojo, who had the fatal combination of lack of imagination, with an immense capacity to work hard: he led the way, including lying about negotiations with Washington, in pushing Japan into '"preventive war" against the US, UK, and the Netherlands = Pearl Harbor. He should have been hanged and cut down and rehanged for a week.

Japanese soldiers of the era sometimes sarcastically referred to themselves as "i-san go-ren," or "one and a half cents." That was the whole cost to the War Department for mailing a man a postcard with his draft notice and instructions. Horses, by contrast, cost real money! With conscription being universal and evasion being impossible, and all public opposition being silenced and terminated, including by death, the generals and politicians in the ruling clique needed to account to nobody for their man-wasting strategies and tactics, for the sacrifice of millions of i-san go-rens.

남에 나라 침략해 온갖나쁜짖 하더니 꼴좋다...

All the resources Yamato used probably could have built 5-6 aircraft carriers

they picked a fight with the wrong country, but i wonder if it would be different if this happened now.

Use a much better narrator.

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Sayonara JAPs

Nice narration. As a retired Navy veteran, I appreciate the retelling of these events. The scenes are from a Japanese movie glorifying the Yamato and her suicide mission. In reality despite the theatrics only 10 American planes were lost and 12 crewmembers. If one assumes seven aircraft were lost due to the explosion of the Yamato as she was sinking it means only three American aircraft were shot down by all of the Japanese ships combined. From PBS, " Eight Japanese destroyers and one cruiser, the Yahagi, tried to assist Yamato in fending off her attackers. By the end of the battle, Yahagi and all eight destroyers were lost" so although four destroyers survived the initial onslaught they were hunted down and sunk within hours of the sinking of Yamato and her other escorts.

The U.S. Navy did not do a very good job - it tried to convert Yamato into a submarine but was only half successful. While the cinverson did a great job in making Yamato dive - it didn't allow her to resurface.

Just dumb. 😂😂😂like dump..

yamato is noob ship😂

Didn’t one of her turrets relive itself from the ship when her aft magazines detonated?

No such thing as a non sinkable ship not sure what japs were thinking maybe smoked to much opion

Every ship claiming to be unsinkable , is at the bottom of the ocean

Alls well that ends well

The horrors the Yamato's adolescent sailors experienced during her last battle make the Titanic look like a luxury cruise.

only around 200 of the 3,300 who crewed Yamato would survive.

Purely from an engineering standpoint it's a genuine shame the Yamoto was sunk as she was a magnificent ship: if only she'd been kept out of active duty by breakdowns etc and sat the war out she would have been a somber and powerful monument to WW2 today.

Should have put a bomb down her stack, but this was enough I guess.

A ship, swamped by the attacking planes. She didn't have chance, but the High Command ordered it, and her sailors paid the price. One they chose. What a waste of life in my view, but not to the Japanese. - thats my personal view.

they just pounded the shit right out of it

the american's were gonna put it on the bottom. this is what's happening today

american's had to learn to fight but once they did there was hell to pay

great video, but port and starboard??

More planes attacked the Yamato than took place in the Pearl Harbor raid After the event of carrier aviation the Yamato was called the right ship for the wrong war

Wenn sie mit ihren Hauptgeschützen auf Flugzeuge feuern, das ist dann schon eine verzweifelte Aktion

That battle must've looked like the end of the world

No ship can withstand air power.

When you see the photo of the Yamato exploding it looks like a nuke.

Bismarck was a superior battle ship

AI voice really Stinks!

I wonder how predictable it was that the Yamato's departure would be discovered so early on in the mission?

Why is this guy speaking so slowly? Yawnnnnnnnnnnnnn.............

Never call a ship unsinkable its bad luck

Never trump, he's a fascist

When you pull some video from world of warships lol.

Titanic of Japan 🇯🇵

Well done

Thanks.
大日本帝国海軍の象徴である戦艦大和は、片道の燃料だけで、特攻作戦に出陣したが、鹿児島県の南方沖で、米軍の戦闘機にウンカの如く、寄ってたかって攻撃を受け、任務を果たす事なく撃沈され、海のモズクとなった。
大日本帝国海軍の自滅。

What the Japs did to Pearl Harbor December ,7 1941

Never poke the Eagle 🇺🇸

Bro I hate the Yamato

Jeez, the narrator will send anyone to sleep with his slow talking

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Set playback speed to 1.5 to mitigate the drunk narration

With so many American Airplanes in the air, i surprised that there were not collision between two airplane during that whole attacks.

Yamato was facing NINE USA carriers. The ship never stood a chance.

Excellent plus documentary !!!