The World's Biggest Battleship Sailed to Die — 3,000 Men, Zero Chance: Yamato's Last 2 Hours

The world's biggest battleship sailed to die on April 7th, 1945. With no fighter cover, the Yamato was attacked by 386 American carrier aircraft, and after two hours of torpedo strikes concentrated on her port side she rolled over and exploded. About 3,000 of her men died with her. Japan would never again send a battleship to sea to fight. This documentary traces the Yamato from her secret design and the Panama Canal logic behind her 18.1-inch guns, through Midway, the Skate torpedo hit of 1943, the sinking of the Musashi in the Sibuyan Sea and the Battle off Samar, to Operation Ten-Go, Mitscher's Task Force 58 strike, and the TBM Avenger and rebuilt Mark 13 torpedo that finished her. Built from after-action reports, loss tables, squadron records and Japanese survivor accounts — including why the famous "one-way fuel" story is wrong. Subscribe for the definitive history of the United States in the Second World War — new documentaries every few days. #WW2 #WorldWarII #PacificWar #USNavy #WWIIHistory #Yamato #OperationTenGo #TBMAvenger #TaskForce58 #MilitaryHistory #USAInWW2