Book contents
- Yukikaze’s War
- Yukikaze’s War
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- A Note on Sources
- Chapter 1 Divine Ships of a Bluewater Navy
- Chapter 2 Torpedoes, Destroyers, and Samurai of the Seas
- Chapter 3 Oil Empire and Japan’s Southern Advance
- Chapter 4 Conquest of the South Seas
- Chapter 5 Escorting Catastrophe at Midway
- Chapter 6 Barroom Brawl at Guadalcanal
- Chapter 7 Defending the Solomon Sea and Bismarck Barrier
- Chapter 8 The Mariana Islands and the Collapse of Japan’s Defensive Sphere
- Chapter 9 The Leyte Theater
- Chapter 10 Dangerous Homewaters and Shinano Destroyed
- Chapter 11 Yamato and the Specter of History
- Chapter 12 Surrender and the Enduring Dangers of Yukikaze’s Haunt
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
Chapter 11 - Yamato and the Specter of History
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 June 2024
- Yukikaze’s War
- Yukikaze’s War
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- A Note on Sources
- Chapter 1 Divine Ships of a Bluewater Navy
- Chapter 2 Torpedoes, Destroyers, and Samurai of the Seas
- Chapter 3 Oil Empire and Japan’s Southern Advance
- Chapter 4 Conquest of the South Seas
- Chapter 5 Escorting Catastrophe at Midway
- Chapter 6 Barroom Brawl at Guadalcanal
- Chapter 7 Defending the Solomon Sea and Bismarck Barrier
- Chapter 8 The Mariana Islands and the Collapse of Japan’s Defensive Sphere
- Chapter 9 The Leyte Theater
- Chapter 10 Dangerous Homewaters and Shinano Destroyed
- Chapter 11 Yamato and the Specter of History
- Chapter 12 Surrender and the Enduring Dangers of Yukikaze’s Haunt
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Chapter 11 explores Operation Ten-Go, the battleship Yamato’s suicide mission to defend Okinawa from Allied invasion. Yukikaze escorted Yamato and witnessed her destruction. By this juncture, a kamikaze spirit permeated the Imperial Japanese Navy, which had become consumed by its legacies in the eyes of history, rather than strategic successes.
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- Yukikaze's WarThe Unsinkable Japanese Destroyer and World War II in the Pacific, pp. 234 - 253Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024