Visiting the USS Iowa Battleship Museum

In late August 2022, I took a short trip down to Los Angeles to do some sightseeing. One of the places on my itinerary was

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Operation Ten-Go: The End of the Battleship Yamato

By April of 1945, the Allied push across the Pacific had summarily turned the tide of the war against Imperial Japan. With her surface fleet and naval air forces virtually decimated through attrition from previous campaigns and battles, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) attempted one final, desperate push against the Allies at Okinawa with the very symbol of the navy and Japan itself, the Yamato battleship. Unfortunately, they were up against the massive Allied naval forces approaching Okinawa.

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