Yamato Museum, Kure, Japan, October 30, 2013
Just 25 minutes by local train from Hiroshima is the city of Kure. It is an industrial city with several ship yards. It has been so for many years, and many of the battleships that participated in WWII were build here.
To commemorate this great legacy within ship building the city has build an almost new museum (2005) that covers both the pre-war and WWII period but also modern day ship industry.
By far the best thing to see at the museum is the incredible, beautifully made 1:10 (!) scale model of the Battleship Yamato. Just next to the model is a new and quite big special exhibition covering the design of this the world largest battleship ever build.
Some other things from WWII can also be seen at the museum, such as a Zero fighter and a Long Lance type 95 torpedo.
The video contains still pictures and HD video from the museum. Again I had too little time at the museum - only a little more than 1 hour due to we had to catch a ferry to Matsuyama. The ferry terminal is just next to the museum.
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Note that just 3 minutes' walk from the museum is the museum for the JMSDF (Japanese Navy).
WW2 Beached, Sunk, Damaged, Japanese Shipping, 4/12/1946 - 5/31/1946 (full)
Freely downloadable at the Internet Archive, where I first uploaded it & there is a detailed shot list. National Archives Identifier: 64490
Chieftain Talks. The Battle of Leyte Gulf. Yamato and Musashi | World of Warships
The second episode in series of talks from Nicholas “The Chieftain” Moran is dedicated to 75th anniversary of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in the Pacific, and the largest naval battle in recorded history.
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Naval Legends: Yamato | World of Warships
The Yamato battleship is the pinnacle of the battleship type. The biggest battleship in the world, and the best known Japanese Navy ship. Sadly remembered for her defeat in her last battle against 227 American aircraft, which became a demonstrative execution and ended with the giant being defeated and the hopes of the Japanese command crashed.
Built in secret, and at great expense, she emerged as the largest battleship in history.
Born to terrify her enemies, she'd cost eight billion USD to build in today's dollars. She represents the pinnacle of battleship building, but launched at a key turning point in naval warfare history. The rise of aircraft-based naval combat left her immensely powerful, but ill-equipped to fight sustained air attacks. Still, nothing captures the imagination of naval aficionados quite like Yamato. There's a mountain of knowledge just below the surface. Press Play!
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IJN Nagato 'B' Turret sidemount test #1
IJN Nagato sidemount test into typical closet door. We build and battle radio control ships that fire real projectiles, take damage, and possibly sink! The damage is repaired in minutes and the ships are ready for another battle. We are a chapter of mwci.org, check it out for more info!
U. S. victory at Midway filmed under fire - 1942
The Battle of Midway, fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway atoll, represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war. Prior to this action, Japan possessed general naval superiority over the United States and could usually choose where and when to attack. After Midway, the two opposing fleets were essentially equals, and the United States soon took the offensive.
Japanese Combined Fleet commander Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto moved on Midway in an effort to draw out and destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet's aircraft carrier striking forces, which had embarassed the Japanese Navy in the mid-April Doolittle Raid on Japan's home islands and at the Battle of Coral Sea in early May. He planned to quickly knock down Midway's defenses, follow up with an invasion of the atoll's two small islands and establish a Japanese air base there. He expected the U.S. carriers to come out and fight, but to arrive too late to save Midway and in insufficient strength to avoid defeat by his own well-tested carrier air power.
Yamamoto's intended surprise was thwarted by superior American communications intelligence, which deduced his scheme well before battle was joined. This allowed Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander, to establish an ambush by having his carriers ready and waiting for the Japanese. On 4 June 1942, in the second of the Pacific War's great carrier battles, the trap was sprung. The perserverance, sacrifice and skill of U.S. Navy aviators, plus a great deal of good luck on the American side, cost Japan four irreplaceable fleet carriers, while only one of the three U.S. carriers present was lost. The base at Midway, though damaged by Japanese air attack, remained operational and later became a vital component in the American trans-Pacific offensive.
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This video is part from The United Newsreel (1942 - 1946).
Tokyo Maritime Museum Tour 4
Battleship Yamato scale model a stunner at the Tokyo Museum of maritime Science
Japan's WW2 'Musashi battleship wreck found'
American billionaire Paul Allen has announced the discovery of the famous World War Two Japanese battleship, the Musashi, more than 70 years after it was sunk by US forces.
Mr Allen said the vessel was found by his private exploration team.
It was at a depth of more than 1km (3,280ft) on the floor of the Sibuyan Sea off the Philippines.
The Musashi and its sister vessel, the Yamato, were two of the largest battleships ever built.
US warplanes sank the Musashi on 24 October 1944 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, believed to be the biggest naval encounter of World War Two in which American and Australian forces defeated the Japanese.
Mr Allen announced the discovery on his Twitter page, which also showed photos of the submerged vessel.
He began his search for the Musashi eight years ago, because since my youth I have been fascinated with Second World War history, he was quoted by CNBC as saying.
The Musashi was found in the middle of the Philippine archipelago using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) after Mr Allen's team had carried out a thorough survey of the seabed.
Attacking aircraft
The US Navy website describes the Musashi as a mighty battleship that had mammoth 18-inch guns. Measuring 263m (862ft) it remains one of the largest battleships ever made.
Its twin ship, the Yamato, was damaged in the fighting, according to the US Navy, and American warships finally sank it a year later as it tried to get to Okinawa.
Coming under sustained US aircraft attack in her final days, the Musashi defended itself by firing its huge anti-aircraft weapons into the sea to make huge geysers aimed at knocking down American torpedo bombers, the WW2 Database website says.
Running into one of these geysers would be like running into a mountain, pilot Jack Lawton recalled.
Without adequate air cover, however powerful Musashi was, she was helpless against multiple waves of attacking aircraft, the website says.
After the final attack ended in mid-afternoon, the vessel was hit by 20 torpedoes, and 17 bombs. There were 18 near-misses.
By early evening, the Musashi capsized and sank. More than 1,000 of its crew were killed for the loss of 18 American aircraft.
Seattle-born Mr Allen, 62, founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, and is believed to be the 51st richest person in the world with a net worth of $17.5bn (£11.4bn) according to Forbes Magazine.
The billionaire describes himself on his website as a philanthropist, investor, entrepreneur, author and space pioneer.
He is currently working on an initiative called Stratolaunch, set up to enable cost-effective cargo and manned missions to go into space.
He launched SpaceShipOne, a suborbital air-launched space plane, in 2004.
Building a Navy ship, Great Britain. HD Stock Footage
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Tech titan helps find Japanese battleship in sea
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen led an expedition to find a Japanese battleship's wreckage. Japan's Musashi was once one of the two largest warships in the world. For more information please visit
IJN Battleship Hyuga(model)
Being fully scratch-built, it may take another 1 -2 years or more to finish on her. Have already spent 6 years on the modelling , detailed researches as well. Differences between ISE and her were well taken into account through extended probe into materials. The official name of the ship is called Gunkan Hyuga dai 18 Kaisou aka hybrid battleship/carrier of IJN.
addendum:The model was mainly completed in 2011 and sections including the bridge tower, smoke stack, bow and midter-section of the hull and 14 inch main gun turrets had been forwarded to KazusaMinato N.Y.
The flight deck will be getting under way in a matter of several weeks : a new movie : Battleship HYUGA 1944(flight deck model) HD duration 2:24
戦艦大和ロケセット Battleship YAMATO location set 山本五十六
Battleship Japanese location set
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The total cost of construction about 600 million yen was spent in the Hitachi Shipbuilding & Engineering Mukaishima west factory site in the Hiroshima Prefecture Onomichi City Mukaishima-cho, and the battleship Japanese location set as big as the original dimension was made. 190 meters from the prow to the vicinity of the bridge were reproduced among 263 meters in the total length. It was chiefly constructed with the iron frame, the frame for the interior, and plywood.
The barrel and the upper part of the bridge of the first main armament tower are omitted. Because the bridge became a multistory building, Building Standard Law was not able to be cleared. Moreover, there was no space that set up the foundation of the main armament because of installation features, and it became shape that only Hazcama is simplified about the first main armament. Those lack parts synthesized 1/10 models that had been exhibited in a Japanese museum and were taken of a picture. It was extremely simplified from the first main armament ahead in the part newly increased for opening to the public, and the perfection was low.
It completes it in March, 2005. It was done until June of the same year, and general was open to the public to taking a picture on July 17 of the same year (admission fee adult 500 yen and child 300 yen). The making scene of the movie of the scene that used the Kei dining room (Did business as it is as a dining room) used as staff's dining room besides opening the set to the public, properties, the panel exhibition, and the Japanese location set was telecasted at the same time.
The period of opening to the public is extended until the period of Golden Week May 7 of the same year while doing a detailed restoration for attendance figures that greatly exceed the expectation though opening to the public was scheduled to be ended by thinking about the longevity of the set at first on March 31, 2006. The heroic deed of one million person breakthrough is achieved on the final day. 1,002,343 visitors every 253 days except the closed day visited.
Dismantlement was begun on May 10 after opening to the public ended. In addition, the waiting time of three hours was generated in the voice to hope for the extension of opening to the public until it visited a lot of sets on the fact and the finality of opening to the public day. However, it became a close being regretted because the installation site of the location set was a shipyard under the stop, and re-operation of this shipyard approached.
When a Japanese museum in Kure City proposed to Toei that it wanted you to contribute 64 points in total such as the main armament body, machine guns, and properties, Toei seems to have accepted pleasantly. Two as of 2008. exhibition in annex in Japanese museum
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Two expression large boat preserved in Kanoya
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Himeji naval forces Air Squadron base mark
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World of Warships - IJN Kongo (Svenska)
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Kongō (金剛, indestructible, named for Mount Kongō) was a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I and World War II. She was the first battlecruiser of the Kongō class, among the most heavily armed ships in any navy when built. Her designer was the British naval engineer George Thurston, and she was laid down in 1911 at Barrow-in-Furness in Britain by Vickers Shipbuilding Company. Kongō was the last Japanese capital ship constructed outside Japan. She was formally commissioned in 1913, and patrolled off the Chinese coast during World War I.
Kongō underwent two major reconstructions. Beginning in 1929, the Imperial Japanese Navy rebuilt her as a battleship, strengthening her armor and improving her speed and power capabilities. In 1935, her superstructure was completely rebuilt, her speed was increased, and she was equipped with launch catapults for floatplanes. Now fast enough to accompany Japan's growing carrier fleet, Kongō was reclassified as a fast battleship. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Kongō operated off the coast of mainland China before being redeployed to the Third Battleship Division in 1941. In 1942, she sailed as part of the Southern Force in preparation for the Battle of Singapore.
The Kongō fought in a large number of major naval actions of the Pacific War during World War II. She covered the Japanese Army's amphibious landings in British Malaya (part of present-day Malaysia) and the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) in 1942, before engaging American forces at the Battle of Midway and during the Guadalcanal Campaign. Throughout 1943, Kongō primarily remained at Truk Lagoon in the Caroline Islands, Kure Naval Base (near Hiroshima), Sasebo Naval Base (near Nagasaki), and Lingga Roads, and deployed several times in response to American aircraft carrier air raids on Japanese island bases scattered across the Pacific. The Kongō participated in the Battle of the Philippine Sea and the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944 (October 22–23), engaging and sinking American vessels in the latter. The Kongō was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Sealion while transiting the Formosa Strait on 21 November 1944. She was the only Japanese battleship sunk by submarine in the Second World War, and the last battleship sunk by submarine in history.
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Imperial Japanese Navy | Wikipedia audio article
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The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kaigun Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire, or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun, Japanese Navy) was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 until 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's defeat and surrender in World War II. The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) was formed after the dissolution of the IJN.The Imperial Japanese Navy was the third largest navy in the world by 1920, behind the Royal Navy and the United States Navy (USN). It was supported by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service for aircraft and airstrike operation from the fleet. It was the primary opponent of the Western Allies in the Pacific War.
The origins of the Imperial Japanese Navy go back to early interactions with nations on the Asian continent, beginning in the early medieval period and reaching a peak of activity during the 16th and 17th centuries at a time of cultural exchange with European powers during the Age of Discovery. After two centuries of stagnation during the country's ensuing seclusion policy under the shōguns of the Edo period, Japan's navy was comparatively backward when the country was forced open to trade by American intervention in 1854. This eventually led to the Meiji Restoration. Accompanying the re-ascendance of the Emperor came a period of frantic modernization and industrialization. The navy's history of successes, sometimes against much more powerful enemies as in the Sino-Japanese war and the Russo-Japanese War. The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force was founded as a replacement two years after the end of the occupation of Japan.
Book review - Yamato Class Battleships
Yamato Class Battleships
Author: Steve Wiper
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing; 1st edition (August 20, 2009)
ISBN: 978-1848320451
The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, then moves to an extensive photographic survey of either a high-quality model or a surviving example of the ship. Hints on building the model, and on modifying and improving the basic kit, are followed by a section on paint schemes and camouflage, featuring numerous colour profiles and highly-detailed line drawings. The strengths and weaknesses of available kits of the ships are reviewed, and the book concludes with a section on research references - books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevant websites.The Yamato class battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy were the largest warships of the Second World War and the largest battleships ever constructed, displacing 78,800 tonnes. They also carried the largest naval artillery ever fitted to a warship - 18in guns. Neither Yamato nor her sistership Musashi made much impact on the War. Musashi was sunk during the battle of Leyte Gulf while Yamato, deployed in a deliberate suicide attack on Allied forces at the battle of Okinawa, was finally sunk by US carrier-based aircraft; Not 300 of her 3,330 crew survived.
MUSASHI.wmv
No lights this time.The dark period of WWII has no place for in search for new worlds, to boldly go where no one has been before. It was a time of death, ruins and shattered lives.Big battleships like MUSASHI and her sister(and more famous) YAMATO played a lead role in this destruction dragging down, at the end, thousands of lives among their crews.Other ships will follow in memory of all the victims of this human lunacy.Respect.
Hasegawa 1/450 IJN Akagi - Part 10 (The Aircraft)
The second to last part of the building process of Akagi, this part features the tiny 10 pence size aircraft!