Welcome to my blog ,Here i will post out some interesting stories and photos of some WW2 battleships

The HMS Belfast-the first ship in the Royal Navy to be named after the capital city of Northern Ireland and one of ten Town-class cruisers, began in December 1936. She was launched on St Patrick’s day 1938. Belfast has a Sisters ship too called HMS Edinburgh which was sunk by a German submarine U-456 whilst carrying gold filled cargo’s

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IJN Yamato, Named after the ancient Japanese Yamato Province, Yamato was designed to counter the numerically superior battleship fleet of the United States, Japan’s main rival in the pacific. She was laid down in 1937 and formally commissioned a week after the Pearl Harbor attack in late 1941. on 7 April 1945 she was sunk by American carrier-based bombers and torpedo bombers with the loss of most of her crew.

Yamato has a sister ship too named Musashi,Musashi was sunk by an estimated 19 torpedo and 17 bomb hits from American carrier-based aircraft on 24 October 1944 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Over half of her crew was rescued. Her wreck was located in March 2015 by a team of researchers employed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

source:Wikipedia

one of the most famous battle in the pacific “the sinking of the Super battleship Yamato”, lots of lives were taken in the sinking of the supper battleship Yamato Japanese soldiers were known of fighting till the very last man and do kamikaze attacks as their last resort , they would rather die by their own hands than killed by an enemy i don’t know why but it has something to do about preservation, this short video came from a movie which many clips like these are copyrighted.

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