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Subj: Today in History - Apr 7
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Apr 7, 1945:
Japanese battleship Yamato is sunk by Allied forces
On this day in 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, ostensibly
the greatest battleship in the world, is sunk in Japan's first
major counteroffensive in the struggle for Okinawa.
Weighing 72,800 tons and outfitted with nine 18.1-inch guns, the
battleship Yamato was Japan's only hope of destroying the Allied
fleet off the coast of Okinawa. But insufficient air cover and
fuel cursed the endeavor as a suicide mission. Struck by 19
American aerial torpedoes, it was sunk, drowning 2,498 of its
crew.
73, K.O. n0kfq
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