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100 1 $aSpurr, Russell.
245 12 $aA glorious way to die :$bthe kamikaze mission of the battleship Yamato, April 1945 /$cRussell Spurr.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York, N.Y. :$bNewmarket Press,$c1981.
300 $ax, 341 pages, 16 pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 331-336) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Part I: March 28-April 3,1945 -- Kure Naval Base, March 28, 1945 -- Yamato, March 28 -- International Naval Rivalries, 191 8-42 -- Yamato Sets Sail, 1730 Hours, March 28, 1945 -- Okinawa, April I -- U.S. Fifth Fleet, Off Okinawa, April I -- Kamikaze Headquarters, Kanoya Air Base, Kyushu, April 2 -- Assembly of Japanese Fleet, Mitajiri Anchorage, Inland Sea of japan, April 2 -- The Navy Ministry, Tokyo, April 3 -- Part II: April 5,1945 -- Japanese Combined Fleet Headquarters, Hiyoshi, April 5 -- Kamikaze Headquarters, Kanoya Air Base, April 5 -- Openness Fleet, Mitajiri Anchorage, April 5 -- Japanese Secret Fleet Signal, 607, Tokyo ... Okinawa . . .Hawaii, April 5 -- Japanese Fleet, Mitajiri Anchorage, April 5 -- U.S. Fleet, Off Okinawa, April 5 -- Part III: April 6, 1945 -- Navy Chief of Staff's Office, Tokyo, April 6 -- Kamikaze Headquarters, Kanoya Air Base, April 6 -- U.S. Fifth Fleet, Off Okinawa, April 6 -- U.S. Fighting 30 Air Group, With Task Force 58, Off Okinawa, April 6 -- Japanese Army Observation Post, Okinawa, April 6 -- Japanese Fleet, Tokuyama Oil Depot, Inland Sea of japan, Morning, April 6 -- U.S. Submarines, Bungo Strait, Evening, April 6 -- Part IV: April 6-7, 1945, Night -- Japanese Submarine, Approaching Okinawa, Night, April 6 -- Aboard Yamato, Off the Japanese Coast, Night, April 6 -- U.S. Fifth Fleet, Off Okinawa, Night, April 6-7 -- Part V: April 7, 1945, Morning -- Kamikaze Headquarters, Kanoya Air Base, Before Dawn, April 7 -- U.S. Task Force 58, Off Okinawa, Before Dawn, April 7 -- U.S. Task Force 54, Off Okinawa, Morning, April 7 -- U.S. Sighting of the Openness Fleet, East China Sea, Morning, April 7 -- U.S. Contact with the Japanese Task Force, East China Sea, Morning, April 7 -- Kamikaze Attack on U.S. Task Force 58, Morning, April 7 -- PART VI: APRIL 7,1945, AFTERNOON & EVENING -- Beginning of the U.S. Attack: Wave One, 1235 Hours, April 7 -- Aboard Yamato, East China Sea, 1232 Hours, April 7 -- U.S. Attack: Wave Two, 1259 Hours, April 7 -- Aboard the Openness Fleet; Wave Two, 1240 Hours, April 7 -- The End of the Battle: Wave Three, 1342 Hours, April 7 -- Rescue Operations, 1520 Hours, April 7 -- Return from Battle, April 7-8 -- Epilogue -- Appendixes -- Operational Command Structure, Imperial Japanese Navy, April, 1945 -- Allied Order of Battle, April, I945 -- Yamato, Side-on Sectional View -- Yamato, Bomber's-eye View of Weather Deck
520 0 $aThe only book to dramatize, day-by-day, from both the Japanese and Allied points of view, the events surrounding this tragic, historic last mission of the biggest battleship ever built in the history of naval warfare. Chosen as a Main Selection of the Military Book Club". First-rate military history with an unusual human dimension"--Kirkus Reviews.
520 0 $a"A powerful, suspenseful work of history, a naval version of A Night to Remember"--San Francisco Chronicle.
520 $aTold from both Japanese and Allied points of view, this critically acclaimed World War II classic documents the tragic final days of the Japanese battleship Yamato and its doomed last mission. In April 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, the pride of the Japanese navy and the largest battleship ever built, left Japan on a deliberate suicide attack upon Allied forces engaged in the Battle of Okinawa, with only eight other Japanese warships, no overhead air cover, and enough fuel for only one day. The Japanese force was attacked, stopped, and almost completely destroyed by U.S. carrier-borne aircraft before reaching Okinawa. Yamato and five other Japanese warships were sunk. The Yamato lost 3,062 men; only 269 were saved. In this critically acclaimed retelling of the Yamato's final days, from March 28 to April 8, 1945, Russell Spurr documents and dramatizes, from both American and Japanese points of view, the events surrounding this tragic mission--a battle that made clear Japan's willingness to sacrifice large numbers of men in attempts to slow the Allies, which, in many historians' opinions, likely influenced President Truman's decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the atom bomb four months after the Yamato sank.
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aSpurr, Russell.$tGlorious way to die.$b1st ed.$dNew York, N.Y. : Newmarket Press, 1981$w(OCoLC)562185915
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