The Great War of Archimedes

Jayhawker

A somewhat interesting movie about the building of the IJN Yamato..most interesting is that the movie starts with a pretty good rendition of the death of the ship..worth watching ...

I found it weird that they mentioned nothing of Yamatos sister ship IJN Musashi...

I also learned that the most important person in a IJN anti-aircraft crew was a guy with a stick...

Wambli Ska

Is it on one of the streaming services?

Jayhawker

Wambli Ska said:

Is it on one of the streaming services?

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Bigslug

Gonna have to give that one a look.  Having been aboard Iowa twice, I still have trouble wrapping my brain around the fact that, not only can such things built like that float, they can move at over 30mph

Jayhawker

Talk about big....Yamato and Musashi displaced nearly twice the tonnage of the Iowa class BBs...80,000 tons...

At the Battle of Leyte Gulf...the Yamato displaced more tonnage than all the U.S. combatants combined...

Some_Mook

This sounded interesting, and as I am a bit too rural to get decent streaming services I added this to my wish list of DVDs.  My stepson gifted this to me this week for my birthday.  I just watched it, and thought it was very interesting and well done.  Quite a plot twist toward the end.  I knew something of the rivalry between the Japanese Army and the Navy, as well as some of the in-fighting that went on within the Japanese Navy itself, but this movie really brought it home.  Good movie, and I liked that it was presented in Japanese with English subtitles.  I prefer to watch Das Boot with the German dialog instead of the dubbed English version, so maybe I'm just weird that way.

Thank you Jayhawker for bringing this one up!

Zee

Never understood the guy with the stick. 

CHIRO1989

Zee said:

Never understood the guy with the stick. 

The beatings will continue until morale improves.....

Big Al1

Zee said:

Never understood the guy with the stick. 

He directed the anti-aircraft fire by spotting and pointing the targets out for the gun crews!!

Jayhawker

I wonder if he had to qualify to use the stick....

Lonewolf-Peru

Jayhawker said:

Talk about big....Yamato and Musahi displaced nearly twice the tonnage of the Iowa class BBs...80,000 tons...

At the Battle of Leyte Gulf...the Yamato displaced more tonnage than all the U.S. combatants combined...

.... and the japanese fleet outnumbered Taffy 3 almost 2 to 1,
 but it was Kurita's force the one running away in fear after the last shot was fired

Jayhawker

Lonewolf-Peru said:

Jayhawker said:

Talk about big....Yamato and Musahi displaced nearly twice the tonnage of the Iowa class BBs...80,000 tons...

At the Battle of Leyte Gulf...the Yamato displaced more tonnage than all the U.S. combatants combined...

.... and the japanese fleet outnumbered Taffy 3 almost 2 to 1,
 but it was Kurita's force the one running away in fear after the last shot was fired

Yes..in one case the crew of the single 5" gun mounted on the fantail of an escort carrier shot hell out of a Japanese cruiser...