
Caption | Yamato under air attack in the Inland Sea, 19 Mar 1945 ww2dbase | |||||||
Source | ww2dbaseUnited States National Archives | |||||||
Identification Code | 80-G-309662 | |||||||
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Photos on Same Day | 19 Mar 1945 | |||||||
Added By | C. Peter Chen | |||||||
Added Date | 7 Sep 2006 | |||||||
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Licensing | Public Domain. According to the US National Archives, as of 21 Jul 2010: |
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"The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years."James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, 23 Feb 1945
12 Oct 2012 03:49:48 PM
YAMATO UNDER ATTACK FROM US NAVY AIRCRAFT FROM(CV-12)USS HORNET, TASK FORCE 58 MARCH 1945. YAMATO WAS NOT SERIOUSLY DAMAGED.
DID YOU KNOW THE JAPANESE DESTROYED MANY OF THEIR PHOTOGRAPHS, INFORMATION AND OTHER DATA ABOUT YAMATO AT THE END OF WWII.
SOME OF THE PHOTOS THAT DID SURVIVE, WERE RUNNING TRIALS AND THOSE TAKEN BY THE US NAVY DURING AIR ATTACKS AGAINST YAMATO.