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t Requiem For Battleship Yamato Yoshida Mitsuru. Translation and Introduction by Richard H. Minear. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1999. 152 pp. Photos. $14.95 ($11.96).
Almost as long as the U.S. Navy's Iowa (BB-61)-class battleships and far heavier, Japan's majestic super-battleship Yarn?ato was considered unsinkable when she was launched in 1940. Her very name was a poetic synonym for the nation. Her loss to American air power in Operation Ten 'ichigo-Japan's final. hopeless suicide sortie against enemy...