Image: Yamato explosion
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Description: Operation "Ten-Go", 7 April 1945: Smoke rises to the clouds shortly after the Japanese battleship Yamato capsized, exploded and sank after receiving many bomb and torpedo hits from U.S. Navy carrier planes north of Okinawa. An escorting destroyer is visible to the left of the smoke. Photographed from a plane from the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) (Collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN).
Title: Explosion of the Japanese battleship Yamato, on 7 April 1945 (NH 62582)
Credit: U.S. Navy photo NH 62582
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