Japanese Battleship Yamato, 1937-45, 1: 1100, Eaglemoss
Brand: Eaglemoss
Scale 1: 1100
Original ref: EMOS1
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Japanese Battleship Yamato, 1937-45, 1: 1100, Eaglemoss
Scale 1: 1100
Approx length: 23.50 cm.
Total height Approx: 7.00 cm.
Diecast manufacturing, metal with plastic accessories.
Mounted and painted by hand with original decorations.
It includes a base with the Japanese name of the battleship (see photo).
HISTORY
The Yamato (大 和?) Was a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He was a leader of the Yamato class and together with his twin ship, the Musashi, was the heaviest and most heavily armed battleship ever built thanks to its displacement of 72,800 tons at full load and its nine 460 mm cannons.
Named after the former Japanese province of Yamato, the ship was put on the stand on November 4, 1937 and formally delivered a week after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The Yamato was designed to deal with a similar vessel artillery features or several smaller units of the United States Navy, the main maritime rival of the Empire of Japan in the Pacific. However, paradoxically the attack on Pearl Harbor forever buried the concept of the supremacy of the battleship.
Throughout 1942 he acted as flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and in June 1942 Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto led from his bridge the disastrous Battle of Midway. The Musashi replaced it as flagship of the Combined Fleet in early 1943, and the Yamato used the rest of that year and much of 1944 moved between the Truk Islands and the port of Kure in response to American threats. Despite being present at the battle of the Philippine Sea, the Yamato did not participate in it, and the only time he fired his main weapons at enemy surface targets was in October 1944, when he was sent to attack the forces Americans who invaded the Philippine Islands during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. On the verge of victory, the Japanese forces withdrew believing that they were facing a full US transport fleet instead of a small escort group, which was the only thing that stood between the Yamato and the vulnerable troop transports. .
During 1944 the balance of naval power in the Pacific leaned against Japan, and at the beginning of 1945 the Japanese fleet had to remain in port because of the critical shortage of fuel. In April of this last year, in a desperate attempt to stop the Allied advance, the Yamato was sent to the island of Okinawa with the mission of trying to protect it from the invasion and fight until the end. However, submarines and aircraft carriers of the US Navy discovered their combat group south of Kyushu and on April 7, 1945 was attacked and sunk by bomber planes and torpedo boats of an American aircraft carrier, which caused the disappearance of most of their crew.
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