What are, in your opinion, some of the most dramatic moments in history? For me, it's the end of the battleship Yamato>largest battleship ever built, roughly the size of the Titanic>by the end of WW2 the Jap air force was so decimated they couldn't escort ships anymore>final plan: send the Yamato on a one-way trip to Okinawa>to beach itself and fight as a stationary gun platform until destroyed>given only enough fuel to make it there>base commanders secretly defy orders and give the Yamato as much fuel as they can>without any air escort the Yamato is sunk before it ever reaches its destination>thus ends the largest fucking battleship ever created in human historyJust what it says both about Japanese mentality and their desperate situation is pretty kino.
it's pretty ironic it was the most fearsome battleship ever built yet it went down without ever engaging any other shipnaval warfare was never the same after aircraft carriers reached their potential
>>18637841You call it kino. I call it stupidity and tells you everything wrong with Japan in WW2. If the endgoal was to >beach itself and fight as a stationary gun platformThen the ship should have docked at Nahaearlier, the guns stripped from the ship and placed at a high point and the crew shifted to land duties.The last voyage of the Yamato was nothing more than a unnecessary suicide mission planned by a bunch of big gun admirals who just wanted the surface ships to do something and look cool. And it ended with everyone dead, an entirely obvious result. Which about sums up the Japan war effort.Badly thought out.
>>18637887Kino, it exactly fits that kind of “Lost Cause” narrative that mirrors the romanization of the CSA in the Civil War
>>18637841Musashi took 17 bombs and 19 torpedoes.Far more than the Yamato.They could have wiped out tappy 3 btw if it wasnt for the commander being a coward
>>18637841The Battle of Moscow in 1941 is a pretty crazy one, even if realistically speaking the Wehrmacht was obviously never going to be able to capture a metropole the size of Moscow.>Genocidal murderous maniacs knocking at your capital's gates >Freezing -30 degree blizzards>Soldiers marching straight from parade grounds to the front >First successful major counterattack against an invading army that was previously unbeatable and wrecking you Always wondered how tense and, for lack of a better word, exciting it must have been to be in Moscow at that time. Capital cities in moments of tension like that always fascinate me, e.g. the Quai d'Orsay in France infamously being clouded with black smoke as the French government began burning archives before the Germans could get to them
