Japanese battleship Yamato explodes, 7 April 1945 (NH 62579)

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Japanese battleship Yamato explodes, 7 April 1945 (NH 62579)

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Operation "Ten-Go", 7 April 1945: The Japanese battleship Yamato capsizes and explodes sank after receiving many bomb and torpedo hits from U.S. Navy carrier planes north of Okinawa.
Photographed from a plane from the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) (Collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN).

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07/04/1945

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