Musashi Super Weapon

Uncommon Valor: Campaign for the South Pacific covers the campaigns for New Guinea, New Britain, New Ireland and the Solomon chain.

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rlc27
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PzB,

I haven't yet found any pictures of the sunken Yamato and Musashi, though I do know that the Nipponese went down and visited it back in the 80's. There is an accurate drawing of it, however, in Jan Skulski's (sp?) "Anatomy of the Ship: Battleship Yamato." I found it kind of traumatic to look at...that proud ship lying all twisted on the bottom. Anyway, that particular book, long heralded by many as the definitive modeler's guide to Yamato, has line drawings of just about every rivet on the external structure. Unfortunately, we don't know that much about the construction of the inner compartments, since the Nipponese burned everything when the US came. There should be some photos somewhere, if only you could track down the name of that group--I think they had a website up a while ago but the link is broken now.

My wife's mother's brother (I guess that makes him my uncle in law?) was actually a crewmember on board Musashi, but he went down with the ship.
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