Japanese battleship Musashi

To talk a little bit about the Yamato as a vessel, because I do think that's important.

The Yamato is one of the, like the Yamato and the, I think the sister ship, the Musashi are the biggest battleships ever created.

Like they were the biggest and they were, the keels were put down in the late thirties.

They were designed

And oh, surprise, aircraft is the future, right? Right.

Devastates the Japanese fleet, basically never recovers.

Well, this is one of those things you may not know, but the Yamato and the Musashi had a third ship.

Another keel had been laid down and was in construction.

It was where the combined fleet lived.

The super battleships Yamato and Musashi had swung at anchor there.

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto had run the war from there until American P-38s shot him out of the sky over Bougainville in April of 1943.

The man who replaced Yamamoto was Admiral Mineichi Koga, born in 1885 in Inarita in Saga Prefecture, a little town famous for its porcelain.

Twice the order went out.

The warships, get out of Palau now.

And the biggest of all of them was the Musashi.

I want you to understand what this ship was.