![]() Yamato was cynically referred as "Yamato Hotel", a hotel located in Dalian China during WW2 time, as she never took part in any major battle pre-1944 due to her high consumption and her status as IJN's flagship.Yamato requires 2.5 times more fuel compared to the Nagato-class battleships.The battle ends with the Fleet Girls being successful. She later appears in the battle against Airfield Princess, the enemy that transforms into Midway Princess. However, the truth is that despite being essentially the most powerful ship in the fleet, she's far too expensive resource-wise to sortie. Due to her management duties, Yamato has barely any battlefield experience. The base, however, seems more like a four-star hotel than an anchorage on the front lines. In the anime, Yamato finally makes her appearance in episode 8, overseeing the management of the Truk Lagoon Base. She is also bothered by the fact that she has no battlefield experience despite being the most powerful ship in the fleet. She frequently has to correct the Admiral about being called "Yamato Hotel", something she is sensitive towards. Yamato is a shy, respectful and polite woman, who is also strong-willed and courageous. She wears grey shoes with red rudder heels. On her other leg, she wears a black knee-high sock. On her first remodel, she bears the slogan that her admiral posted for the suicidal Operation Ten-Go, the final operation the IJN undertook, where Yamato, Yahagi, and numerous destroyers were sunk by American aircraft. She wears a single black thighhigh with a single white stripe on the top. She often carries an oriental umbrella with a shaft based on the battleship's distinctive mast. She has very long dark brown hair tied into a long ponytail, with multiple cherry blossoms in her hair. Yamato is depicted as a tall, lightly tanned woman with large breasts and brown eyes. The task force was spotted south of Kyushu by US submarines and aircraft, and on ApYamato was sunk by American carrier-based bombers and torpedo bombers with the loss of most of her crew. In April 1945, in a desperate attempt to slow the Allied advance, Yamato was dispatched on a one way voyage to Okinawa, where it was intended that she should protect the island from invasion and fight until destroyed. These attacks wrought enough havoc on the Japanese surface force to turn them back, but only after inflicting losses comparable in ships and men to the Battle of Midway.ĭuring 1944, the balance of naval power in the Pacific decisively turned against Japan and, by early 1945, the Japanese fleet was much depleted and critically short of fuel stocks in the home islands, limiting its usefulness. Nevertheless desperate sailors and aviators delivered accurate five in shellfire and torpedoes from ships as small as destroyer escorts. The massive guns of Yamato would not be turned against battleships, but in the Battle of Samar would instead be a seemingly mismatched showdown against the industrial production of small and inexpensive light ships and carriers. Left behind was only a slow escort carrier task force armed against ground forces with no hope of protecting vulnerable troop transports from Yamato.īut as the American light ships resembled larger cruisers and aircraft carriers, the Japanese believed they were fighting the main fleet. The Japanese were unaware that Admiral William Halsey Jr.'s entire massive fast carrier task force with battleships had been successfully lured away by a feint. The only time she fired her main guns at enemy surface targets was in October 1944, when she was sent to engage American forces invading the Philippines during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Although she was present at the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944, Yamato played no part in the battle. Musashi took over as the Combined Fleet flagship in early 1943, and Yamato spent the rest of the year, and much of 1944, moving between the major Japanese naval bases of Truk and Kure Atolls in response to American threats. Throughout 1942 she served as the flagship of the Combined Fleet, and in June 1942 Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto directed the fleet from her bridge during the Battle of Midway, a disastrous defeat for Japan. Laid down in 1937 and formally commissioned a week after the Attack on Pearl Harbor in late 1941, Yamato was designed to counter the numerically superior battleship fleet of the United States, Japan's main rival in the Pacific. She and her sister ship, Musashi, were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, displacing 72,800 tonnes at full load and armed with nine 46 cm (18.1 in) main guns. ![]() Yamato, named after the ancient Japanese Yamato Province, was the lead ship of the Yamato-class battleships that served with the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
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