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Featured articleJapanese battleship Yamato is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
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further reading

  • Yoshida Mitsuru, Requiem for Battleship Yamato. A detailed description of the ship's final voyage; Mitsuru was the only surviving bridge officer.
  • Janusz Skulski, The Battleship Yamato. - Conway Maritime Press, 1988 - ISBN 0851774903. Part of the "Anatomy of the Ship" series.
  • Russell Spurr's A Glorious Way To Die. A description of Yamato’s final days as seen from the perspective of not only her officers and men, but also the accompanying ships of her task force and the American forces who destroyed her.
  • Siegfried Breyer, Battleships and Battlecruisers 1905–1970 (Doubleday and Company; Garden City, New York, 1973) (originally published in German as Schlachtschiffe und Schlachtkreuzer 1905–1970, J.F. Lehmanns, Verlag, Munchen, 1970). Contains various line drawings of the ship as designed and as built.
  • Robert Gardiner, ed., Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships 1922–1946, (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1980)
  • William H. Garzke, Jr., and Robert O. Dulin, Jr., Battleships: Axis and Neutral Battleships in World War II, (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1985)
  • James D. Hornfischer, The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors : The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour, (Bantam; Reprint edition, 2005). Detailed story of the Battle off Samar (although light on details from the Japanese perspective) and the most intensive treatment available of Yamato’s only surface action.
  • "Then the Americans started to shoot with machine guns at the people who were floating, so we all had to dive under." Naoyoshi Ishida; Keiko Bang (September 2005). Survivor Stories: Ishida. Sinking the Supership. NOVA., Hara, Tameichi (1961). "The Last Sortie", Japanese Destroyer Captain. New York & Toronto: Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-27894-1. , and Yoshida, Mitsuru; Richard H. Minear (1999). Requiem for Battleship Yamato. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-544-6. .
  • Axelrod, David (Writer and director) (2005). NOVA, Sinking the Supership (Video documentary). Boston: WGBH Educational Foundation and Bang Singapore Private Limited. — One-hour documentary on Operation Ten-Go
  • Joseph Pires, USS Bennington Historian
  • Evans, David C. (2008). Kaigun : Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0870211927. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Yoshimura, Akira (2008). Battleship Musashi: The Making and Sinking of the Worlds Biggest Battleship. Tokyo: Kodansha International. ISBN 4770024002.- Includes information on Yamato's design and construction.
  • Stille, Mark (2008). Imperial Japanese Navy Battleships 1941-45. Osprey. ISBN 1846032806.
  • Watts, Anthony J. (1971). The Imperial Japanese Navy. Doubleday. ISBN 0385012683.

Typo?

The following appears in the Battle off Samar section: "...a spread of torpedoes heading for Yamato were spotted".... Should this read "...a spread...was spotted"...? Fred4570 (talk) 01:54, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that with so called collective nouns the verb is allowed to be in plural, possibly less in British English than in American English. They say that there are rules to decide whether to use plural or singular, but they say also that these rules are somewhat confusing even for native speakers 194.174.73.33 (talk) 12:43, 5 October 2015 (UTC) Marco Pagliero Berlin[reply]

Edit request: Nickname "Hotel Yamato" fails verification

The statement "Dubbed "Hotel Yamato" by the Japanese cruiser and destroyer crews stationed in the South Pacific," needs {{failed verification|date=September 2016}} appended to it. The cited source says only "YAMATO, the world’s mightiest battleship, remains at Truk as a “hotel” from 29 August 1942 until 8 May 1943."

It's not clear that the quotation marks indicate anything more than a metaphor made up by the author of the reference; there is no indication that the phrase is contemporary, or who used it. Maybe other ships' crews did call it that, but the source doesn't support that statement.

Here are some other uses of the term, none of which are quite on point:

71.41.210.146 (talk) 00:48, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done nyuszika7h (talk) 09:41, 1 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I've deleted the statement.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 15:37, 1 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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No supporting citation

The second to last paragraph under section Operation Ten-Go states that survivors were strafed by fighters after the ship's sinking. But the citation for this (#21 - "Combined Fleet – tabular history of Yamato". Parshall, Jon; Bob Hackett, Sander Kingsepp, & Allyn Nevitt. 2009) makes no mention of the strafing of survivors. This addition of strafing survivors was made by user AnnaGoFast at 20:55, 25 December 2016. Under the talk section it appears that this account was hacked at some point. If a citation can be provided it should be included at this point, otherwise the verbiage should be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Windswords2 (talk • contribs) 15:37, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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