Year: 2004 Language: English Author: Steve Wiper Genre: History Publisher: Classic Warships Publishing Edition: Warship Pictorial No. 25 Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 63 Description: The Yamato and the Musashi were the largest battleships ever built by arty nation and they carried the largest guns of any warship ever built, yet they both were overwhelmed and sunk by air power. They were built at the height of the Dreadnought era, which also was the dramatic rise of aircraft carrier dominance, eclipsing the mighty battleship as ruler of the seas. So little was known about these leviathans, that the US Naval Intelligence was not aware of their existence until they were spotted in battle in the Pacific War. Details were not available until after the war, but so little visual information was available that we are still learning new data to this day. This book is filled with the majority of the only existing photographs, composed of 64 pages, containing 70 black & white and one colorized photograph, 8 sets of technical Illustrations and the front cover painting by the famous naval artist Tam Freeman. Extensive captions and a brief history of these ships rounds out the coverage on these little known battleships.
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IJN Yamato Class Battleships
Language: English
Author: Steve Wiper
Genre: History
Publisher: Classic Warships Publishing
Edition: Warship Pictorial No. 25
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 63
Description: The Yamato and the Musashi were the largest battleships ever built by arty nation and they carried the largest guns of any warship ever built, yet they both were overwhelmed and sunk by air power. They were built at the height of the Dreadnought era, which also was the dramatic rise of aircraft carrier dominance, eclipsing the mighty battleship as ruler of the seas. So little was known about these leviathans, that the US Naval Intelligence was not aware of their existence until they were spotted in battle in the Pacific War. Details were not available until after the war, but so little visual information was available that we are still learning new data to this day. This book is filled with the majority of the only existing photographs, composed of 64 pages, containing 70 black & white and one colorized photograph, 8 sets of technical Illustrations and the front cover painting by the famous naval artist Tam Freeman. Extensive captions and a brief history of these ships rounds out the coverage on these little known battleships.
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