#ijn yamato

[dbf-enthusiast]

The Christmas that could of been.

OTD in 1944, Becuna has a run in with IJN Yamato off the coast of Vietnam. Unfortunately, Yamato’s bearing differed from that of her destroyer screen and Becuna could not correct the angle for a shot. Yamato sailed off unscathed.

[derpthingies]

Yamato design shipgirl sketch thing concept

[the-delta-42]

#thelindbergline 1/1200 #imperialjapanesenavy #yamatoclass #battleship #ijnyamato #yamato #worldwar2 #worldwarII #ww2 #wwii #modelship #modelbuilding #lindberg #lindbergmodel

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[lonestarbattleship]

Combined Fleet Resupplying for the Battle of Leyte Gulf, in Brunei Bay. From left to right, Mogami (最上) in front of Musashi (武蔵), and Chokai (鳥海) in front of Yamato (大和).

Date: October 21, 1944

Colorized by Irootoko Jr: link

[captain-price-unofficially]

IJN Yamato photographed during Operation Ten-Go by an aircraft from USS Yorktown (CV-10). The battleship is on fire and visibly listing to port. April 7, 1945

[judgemark45]

IJN Yamato underway during sea trials in October, 1941

[365idolmaster]

DAY 56 (part 2)

Today's second character for the day is Aki Yamato! Aki is an upbeat and energetic military nerd, collecting airsoft weapons and being very knowledgeable about military history. Aki is also very well versed in wilderness survival and being fit and working out.

FUN FACT: Aki is fittingly named after a battleship, the IJN Yamato. Reminds me of how allegedly the 12 akemasu idols of 765 are also named after battleships? maybe i'm wrong but i do remember something like that lol correct me if im wrong

i had to spend a bit less time on this one so it's very simple and i didn't exactly capture her likeness but i still think it's cute. we get akiyama and then (aki yama)to posted on the same day lol. not with the same kanji meaning but it is a funny coincidence

bye!

bonus images round 2

[c0rvid-19]

I have been playing Azur lane for a while and have been noticing a sad trend in the new ships. In recent events they have been creeping more and more into really obscure ships that really didn’t do anything major irl, while they are ignoring extremely interesting and important ships from WWII.

I have, for a long while now, been hoping that they add some of the members of Taffy 3. Most specifically USS Johnston and USS Samuel B. Roberts.

Johnston in port

USS Johnston, when IJN Yamato and her escorts first engaged the small task force, provided smoke cover for the retreating CVEs. The ship broke off from the force much earlier than any others, and faced the enemy head on, forcing one heavy crusader, IJN Kunamo, to be scuttled later on. Johnston would score a couple hundred hits with her 5 inch guns, before being sunk, (reported as a cruiser by the Japanese). She would receive 6 battle stars, her captain was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, and Yukikaze saluted her as she sunk.

Samuel B. Roberts under way

Later in the engagement, the escort destroyer USS Samuel B. Roberts would earn herself one of the coolest titles ever. Once the carriers were somewhat safe in a rain squall, the rest of the destroyer escort was ordered to commence torpedo runs on their pursuers. The Roberts would assist in this task, and would end up expending the entirety of her ammunition before finally being sunk. She would receive a single battle star, with one of her gunners earning a posthumous silver star. She would also earn the title of “The escort destroyer that fought like a battleship” for her actions.

Both of these ships are extremely cool, and they prevented the complete destruction of American landing points on Samar. But they are completely ignored for ships as far back as WWI.

[warsofasoiaf]

I recall your post on the Japanese battleship Yamato being a colossal waste and poor weapon. My question is this, why then is there such a huge hype and culture around the ship?

It's worth noting that at the time of construction, battleships were considered the prevailing naval doctrine of the day, so the construction of a battleship as opposed to an aircraft carrier was considered a proper use of shipbuilding resources. Anyway, the point of the Yamato was to engage multiple battleships, it was intended to form a cornerstone in naval line battle against United States Navy capital ships and anchor the IJN fighting line. Japan believed that they could not compete with the United States in number of ship hulls produced, so it sought to make up for them by making individual ships larger and stronger. On paper, it's not a bad idea, but as I mentioned before, there were a lot of practical difficulties in operation that led to it being a waste.

As far as culturally speaking, Japanese militarists saw the Yamato and Musashi as visible expressions of Japanese naval engineering capability and a declaration of intent to surpass the western naval powers of the time: the United Kingdom and the United States (the latter being more important as the USA was seen as the Pacific naval power to rival Japan). Afterward, Yamato was mythologized, memorialized, and romanticized, as part of Japan's reckoning (or lack thereof) with their Second World War past. The name Yamato has been used as a symbol of national pride, anti-Western ideology, the victory of honor over cowardly self-preservation as its doomed sailors do their duty to the last in defense of their homeland, or as a means of aggressive foreign policy depending on the person - it's no surprise that it finds a lot of purchase among hardline Japanese militarist and Second World War apologists and warcrime denialists/minimizers.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

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[wyrmmaster]

I was going to comment on how Akagi is Azur Lane Hideki Tojo before I realized he'd die before identifying as IJN.

She pretty much is. Or was I should say, because her level of political power makes her look like Hideki Tojo on steroids and also enhanced by Yog-Sothoth. Given how Musashi and Shinano talk about Akagi I'm half expecting Yamato's first scene to be Jintsuu and Kaga walking into Akagi's room and seeing Yamato willingly chained to the wall complete with ball gag, blindfold, earplugs, whipmarks, and inserted vibrator maybe I'm getting a little away from the point here.

Anywho, the second part is probably why Nagato's loyalists exist, as a way to show the almost civil war between the Navy and Army. We've even had the assassination(attempt)s!

Only, Hideki Tojo didn't slap an enormous dick on the negotiating table and oneshot a god while Hirohito had his tongue inserted somewhere unmentionable.

....That we know of.

[admiralnelsoniii]

The only class of battlecruiser/battleship of the IJN (not counting the Yamatos) that wasn't terribly hideous and ugly. Built by the British.... probably why. The Kongo class. No awful pagoda masts!

[dbf-enthusiast]

"Came to periscope depth and found one YAMATO class battleship and one NACHI class cruiser..."

On December 23, 1944, Submarine BECUNA penetrated a destroyer screen off the coast of Vietnam. When she came to periscope depth, she found a target submariners dream of. Unfortunately, YAMATO had changed course earlier than the destroyer screen, and the angle for an attack wasn't there. She sailed into the safety of Cam Ranh Bay unscathed, and BECUNA's crew were left to lament the Christmas that could have been.

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[sgmnaval]

🇪🇸: El 7 de abril de 1945 los japoneses llevaron a cabo su última misión marítima de gran escala, llamada Ten-Go. En ella usarían al acorazado Yamato como bastión costero para defender las islas de Okinawa. La flota fue interceptada, atacada y hundida por las tropas estadounidenses. 🇬🇧: On April 7, 1945, the Japanese carried out their last large-scale maritime mission, called Ten-Go. In it they would use the battleship Yamato as a coastal bastion to defend the islands of Okinawa. The fleet was intercepted, attacked and sunk by American troops. #battleship #SGM #GuerraMundial #DKM #regiamarina #MarineNationale #Marine #IJN #JapaneseNavy #segundaguerramundial #guerra #wwii #Historia #Story #Marines #RoyalNavy #USNavy #worldwar2 #Navy #worldwar #warship #kriegsmarine #history #carrier #aircraftcarrier #destroyer https://www.instagram.com/p/CqApucvOefX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[the-delta-42]

I #modified my #thelindbergline #ijnzuikaku #ijnyamato #hmskinggeorgev and #hmsdorsetshire into convertible waterline/full hull #models #modelships #lindberg #worldwar2 #worldwarII #ww2 #wwii

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[lonestarbattleship]

The broken armor plate intended for the third Yamato Class Battleship, the Shinano (信濃, Shinano Province) on display at the U.S. Navy Memorial Museum at the Washington Navy Yard, Washington, DC. This plate would have gone on the turret face and is 25" thick!

It was captured by the American Forces after war and sent the U.S. Naval Proving Ground, Dahlgren, Virginia for testing. This particular plate was tested on October 16, 1946 and was penetrated by a US Navy 2700-lb 16" Mark 8 Mod 6 AP with inert filler.

"Complete penetration and plate snapped in two through impact between side edge and upper end of curved gun port hollow. Hole more-or-less cylindrical, with little difference between front and back of plate. Numerous small cracks also put in plate around impact. No damage to projectile indicated, though projectile had considerable remaining velocity and ended up in the Potomac River, never being recovered. Considerable amount of lamination noted in hole (layering effect parallel to face, much like pages in a book glued together)."

Information from NavWeaps.com

If you wish to read more about the tests, click here, link and link. There's too much information for me to condense into a post.

NHHC: NH 82599, NH 82597, NH 82596, NH 82598

[captain-price-unofficially]

The only two known photographs of the IJN's aircraft carrier Shinano. Shinano was meant to be the third of the Yamato-class super battleships, but was converted into a carrier as the strategic significance of carriers over battleships became clear. Sunk by a US sub as she fled to a safer port, her existence wasn't realized until after the war.