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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: GRUNHERZ on October 06, 2005, 03:14:24 AM
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Just look!
http://album.nikon-image.com/nk/NK_ImageView.asp?key=555537&un=97313
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beautiful !
also a big, big juicy target without air cover !
(http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h62000/h62580t.jpg)
Yamato's final moments
(http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h62000/h62582t.jpg)
hit by 10 torps and several bombs, Yamato explodes and sinks.
Requiem for Yamato, great book (http://wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu/kamikaze/books/personal/yoshida/)
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There is a full scale mockup of most of the Yamato. It was made for a movie to be released this December.
190 m of the original 230 m length were built full scale. It's still available for public viewing until March of next year.
(http://www.yamato-movie.jp/images/yamato_800_600.jpg)
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The fight for Okinawa was the bloodiest american campaign of the war. We took such a significant drubbing that the use of the bomb was formulated to preclude an even worse drubbing and bloodbath expected in an Invasion of Japan.
The loss of Yamato did not dissuade the Japanese one bit.
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The loss of Yamato did not dissuade the Japanese one bit.
neither did the first A bomb we dropped on them.
it was the second bomb that sealed the deal.....
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I wouldn't be so sure. From what I've read, Japan was looking for a way out before we dropped the bomb.
Unfortunately for them, they shouldn't have trusted Russia to carry the message.
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I can't believe you bit on those shiny lures...
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Originally posted by Sandman
I wouldn't be so sure. From what I've read, Japan was looking for a way out before we dropped the bomb.
Unfortunately for them, they shouldn't have trusted Russia to carry the message.
Always blame the Russians!!! :lol
When they tried to pass the message - USSR already had obligations to start a war with Japan no later then 3 months after victory in Europe. BTW, I don't know if the "message" wasn't passed to the US. The answer to Japan was that USSR doesn't want to be a conciliator in peace talks with the US.
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Originally posted by Boroda
Always blame the Russians!!! :lol
Works for me. :D
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Well don't worry, although it was blown up and sunk during WW2 the Yamato will someday be salvaged and used in a desperate mission to save the Earth from evil aliens bent on destroying us with pollution.
[Cue Music]
"We're off to outer space
We're leaving Mother Earth
To save the human race
Our Star Blazers
Searching for a distant star
Heading off to Iscandar
Leaving all we love behind
Who knows what danger we'll find?
We must be strong and brave
Our home we've got to save
If we don't in just one year
Mother Earth will disappear
Fighting with the Gamilons
We won't stop until we've won
Then we'll return and when we arrive
The Earth will survive
With our Star Blazers"
(http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/yamato.jpg)
Sorry I try to keep my childhood under control but it pops up occasionally....
- SEAGOON
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Loved that show Seagoon!
I used to draw that Starblazers ship all the time as a kid, but slowly started to make it look like an Iowa.
The Yamato has to be the most overated combat ship of all time.
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A SpaceBismarck would kick a SpaceYamatos arse
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The Bismarck is prolly the second most overated Ship of all time.
A spaceship Iowa would kick all their ass's.
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then the ISD Schärnhörst would come and kill the Spacehip Iowa and the Enterprise.
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LOL please,
the Schrarnhorst wasnt even a real battleship.
The Iowa would laugh at it as it sunk.
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oh I wasnt talking about battleships, I was talking about the new Imperial Star Destroyer :p
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Hi GtoRA2,
Originally posted by GtoRA2
Loved that show Seagoon!
I used to draw that Starblazers ship all the time as a kid, but slowly started to make it look like an Iowa.
The Yamato has to be the most overated combat ship of all time.
Me too. A friend and I used to sit down after school with a huge sheet of white paper and draw the Yamato and other Space Battleships and then have battles by drawing a line from their guns to the other ships with a ruler and erasing "destroyed" sections. Needless to say, there was a lot of arguing about how much should be erased and so on. Thank heavens I've grown up and don't waste time on silly space battles...
Errrr.... Wait a minute...
- SEAGOON
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LMAO none of your space battleships could stand up to Luke Skywalker in an Xwing.
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Anyone catch the NOVA on the Yamato . I missed it was it good?
Cursed wife and and that crime against humanity the soap net channel!!!
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Actually Skywalker was a mediocre pilot who had the Force hold his hand while he flew
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From a fellow Tie Pilot and Missile Boat Captain - you speak the truth my brother!
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that mvie rolex posted the image from looks col, hope they export it.