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Sinking of Yamato on PBS last night !!

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  • From: concord, north carolina
Sinking of Yamato on PBS last night !!
Posted by emo07 on Monday, November 7, 2005 9:25 AM
Hi,
Did anyone else see this show on PBS last night ? They showed images of her in 1200 ft. of water broken in half. The narrator said she was bigger than what we thought and that no original deck plans exist. Surviving crew members confermed this. Maybe the Tamiya kit is wrong if this is true.
emo07
" When I saw fighters escorting the bombers over Berlin, I knew the jig was up." - Herman Goering
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Posted by MBT70 on Monday, November 7, 2005 10:35 AM
Missed it! Dang! What was it called ... maybe they'll re-run it like they often do ......
Life is tough. Then you die.
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  • From: Tochigi, Japan
Posted by J-Hulk on Monday, November 7, 2005 10:39 AM
Wow, coincidentally last night NHK here in Japan replayed a show from 1985 about the Yamato at the bottom of the sea. Evidently those were the first pictures ever of the ship as it lay on the bottom.
There's been a lot about the Yamato on TV here recently due to the release next month of the film "Otoko-tachi no Yamato." Which is a difficult title to translate effectively...literally, it means "Men's Yamato," or "Yamato of the Men," or "Yamato belonging to the Men," but none of that really works cross-culturally. Perhaps turning the literal meaning of the Japanese around would make a better title in English: "Men of the Yamato." That sounds good!
~Brian
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  • From: Left forever
Posted by Bgrigg on Monday, November 7, 2005 11:22 AM
Missed that, but I watch "Midway" on the History Channel last night!

So long folks!

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  • From: concord, north carolina
Posted by emo07 on Monday, November 7, 2005 12:03 PM
Hi MBT70,the show was titled "Sinking of the supership" and lasted one hour. From what I gathered from the show, she was much longer and wider than previouse thought. Over 3000 sailors went down with her because watertight hatches were secured before they could escape.
emo07
" When I saw fighters escorting the bombers over Berlin, I knew the jig was up." - Herman Goering
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Posted by yah4sure on Wednesday, November 9, 2005 4:13 PM
Wow! i can't wait to see it when (or if) it comes to the
midwest.
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  • From: SETX. USA
Posted by tho9900 on Wednesday, November 9, 2005 7:07 PM
I'm hoping the do a repeat of it.  I went on PBS's site and did a search for it and it showed some amazing pics from the attack... I will have to keep an eye out for it...
---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, November 17, 2005 2:56 PM
I caught the show back in October when WNET broadcast it.  Very interesting program, but I have some complaints about it.  Mainly that they ignored entirely the existance and sinking of the Musashi and Shinano.  Instead they made it seem that the Yamato was unigue in its existance and our ability to sink it.  They also gave no mention to the fact that the Yamato did sink US ships dury the war (I definately know of the carrier Gambier Bay).

Still, it was a nice change from programs about nature and stuff.

Stuart


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