Yamato

Yamato

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eBay Store Design by Visualsoft\n\nYamato: Flagship of the Japanese Imperial Navy\n\n--\n\u00A335.00\n\n--|\n\nAsk a Question\n\nDescription\n\nThe Yamato and her sister ship the Musashi represented the ultimate development in the battleship. Together, the two ships were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed. Named after the Yamato Province, \u2018Yamato\u2019 was designed to counter the numerically superior fleet of the US Navy. Built amongst a shroud of secrecy and deception and commissioned shortly after the outbreak of the war in the Pacific she was present at a number of engagements including the Battle of Midway and the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Despite having been designed to engage and sink enemy surface vessels, the \u2018Yamato\u2019 would only fire her unrivalled 18.1-inch guns at an enemy surface target on one occasion, in October 1944 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. In the final months of the war, as Kamikaze aircraft targeted American t

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