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Sep 22, 2023 · Now, researchers have completed in-depth underwater archaeological surveys of some of the wreckage, shooting photos and videos that could reveal new insights into the momentous battle. Exploring...
Sep 18, 2023 · Deep-sea explorers say they have captured detailed images of three iconic shipwrecks from World War II's Battle of Midway, including the first up-close photos of a Japanese aircraft...
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Oct 4, 2016 · The clearest and most detailed footage of the WW2 Japanese battleship Yamato is now on display at the Kure Maritime Museum, commonly referred to as the Yamato Museum. The giant vessel was sunk 200 km off the coast of Makurazaki, Kagoshima Prefecture, on April 7, 1945, on their way to Okinawa on a suicide mission.
Sep 18, 2023 · New images by Ocean Exploration Trust show in detail the wrecks of USS Yorktown (CV-5) and two Japanese aircraft carriers IJN Kaga and IJN Akagi sunk during the pivotal World War II Battle of Midway.
- Yamato Departs For Okinawa
- U.S. Anticipates Deciding Battle
- ‘Commence Firing!’
- Strike Groups Eye Yamato
- ‘San Shiki’ A Sign For U.S. Pilots
- Yamato’s Final Moments
- Gamble Pays Off For U.S.
Its name was Yamato, the mightiest warship yet constructed. Displacing 71,659 tons and capable of 27 knots, the Yamato possessed the greatest firepower ever mounted on a vessel — more than 150 guns, including nine 18.1-inchers that could hurl 3,200-pound armor-piercing shells on a trajectory of 22.5 miles. Its massive armor was the heaviest ever in...
Mitscher felt a stirring of battleship-versus-aircraft carrier rivalry. Though the carriers had mostly fought the great battles of the Pacific, whether air power alone could prevail over a surface force had not been proven beyond all doubt. Here was an opportunity to end the debate forever. Now Mitscher had a problem. Spruance had just transmitted ...
An entire formation of warplanes emerged from a gap in the clouds. One after another they peeled off in a dive. Yamato’s captain, Rear Adm. Kosaku Ariga, barked “Commence firing!” from his command post atop the bridge tower. In the next instant, 24 antiaircraft guns and 120 machine guns opened fire. Thunder reverberated through the steel decks. Fro...
At least that was the plan. There was nothing coordinated about the frenzied, disjointed air strike on the Yamatoforce. Each task group had launched its aircraft without waiting its turn. Each strike leader was trying to be the first to hit the target. The first to locate the Yamato’s task force had been the planes of Task Group 58.1, from the carr...
For most pilots, it was their first look at the San Shiki (“Type three”) shells fired from the massive 18.1-inch guns. They were monsters, each weighing as much as an automobile and filled with incendiary tubes that burst in a cone toward incoming airplanes. And then the pilots noticed something else peculiar: the antiaircraft fire was exploding in...
Watching the inclinometer at his command post tilting past 20 degrees, Yamato’s captain Ariga reached an agonizing decision. The battleship’s list to port had become critical. The system of pumps and valves that had flooded the stabilizing compartments and corrected the earlier list was no longer working. The all-important aft water control center ...
With an ever-present cigarette dangling from his mouth, Vice Adm. Marc Mitscher peered at the still-wet photographs from the strike. Killing Yamatoand five of its screening ships had not come without a price. Ten warplanes — four Helldivers, three Avengers, and three Hellcats — had been lost. Four pilots and eight aircrewmen were missing and presum...
Battle of Midway, June 1942. The burning Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu, photographed by a plane from the carrier Hosho shortly after sunrise on 5 June 1942. Hiryu sank a few hours later. Note collapsed flight deck over the forward hangar.
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Oct 21, 2019 · Deep sea explorers have found two Japanese aircraft carriers that were sunk in battle in World War Two. The carriers were among seven ships that went down in the Battle of Midway, a major...
