Victory at Sea: Yamato

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Victory at Sea: Yamato

amato (大和, “Great Harmony”) and her sister ship, Musashi, wereconstructed shortly before the outbreak of World War II. They were the heaviestand most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed; armed with nine 18.1”Type 94 main guns – the largest guns ever mounted on a warship.

The battleship’s design was an answer to the numerically dominant USNavy – Imperial Japan’s primary threat in the Pacific. Though laid down in1937 the battleship was not actually commissioned until late 1941, a week afterfated attack on Pearl Harbour. She served as the flagship of the Combined Fleet.It was from her bridge that Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto directed the fleet atMidway in June 1942, though this proved a disastrous defeat for the Japanese.She was thereafter replaced by the Musashi as flagship and spent the larger partof 1943 and 44 moving between ports in a responsive role.

October 1944 was the only occasion on which Yamato fired her main guns inanger, at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Yamato had been tasked with repellingAmerican forces invading the Phillipines. Though success lay within Japanesegrasp, such was the ferocity of a counterattack of a light escort carrier groupof the U.S. Navy’s Task Force 77 that the Japanese enacted a retreat,falsely believing they faced a much larger carrier force.

By early in 1945, Naval superiority in the Pacific belonged firmly to the USNavy. In an effort to delay the Allies’ advance, Yamato was dispatched toOkinawa in April 1945, with no expectation to ever return. Her orders were tobeach herself and fight until destroyed. This was not allowed to occur when, on7 April 1945 when she was sunk by US carrier-based bombers and torpedobombers, with the loss of the majority of her complement.

Contains one ship in Resin and Warlord Resin

Models supplied unassembled and unpainted

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