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Por curiosidad Gunkan.Gunkan escribió:No me han dejado acceder a los planos originales del Yamato (evidentemente...)
Si , esta clarisimo ....... el segundo y tercero por la izquierda son de la Yakuza.Gunkan escribió:
*El de la izquierda es el superviviente del que os hablé. Los demás podéis imaginaros quienes son...
Mendas escribió:Pues mira así a simple vista diria que:
- El señor mayor es un honorable jubilado.
- El 2º por la izquierda es guardaespaldas y se está sujetando los huevos.
- El 3º parece un Chapero![]()
- Los 2 de la derecha parecen dos niños haciendo la primera comunión.![]()
On the evening of 28 November 1944, the USS Archerfish, under the command of Joseph Enright, was patrolling the outer entrances of Tokyo Bay. At 2048, radar detected at large pip at 24,700 yards. Working into visual range, the Archerfish was unable to initially identify the contact due to the remodeled and converted Yamato class battleship's unique design (Enright at first believed it was a large tanker with a single escort). The Shinano was a top secret project of the IJN and built under one of Japan's most tightly controlled construction programs of the war. US Intelligence identification manuals showed nothing resembling this vessel, with it's cantilevered stacks and island. Unfortunately, due to advancing allied pressure, the Shinano was commissioned before many of the construction and testing details were completed. She put to sea under the quiet protest of her commanding officer, Captain Toshio Abe.
Having determined that the massive hulk was a Japanese CV, Enright turned to and raced at flank speed to develop a good firing solution. Unfortunately, the Archerfish's top speed of 19 knots was just one knot shy of the Shinano's 20. Realizing that his boat would eventually lose the race with this obvious war prize, Enright sent a coded message to Pearl Harbor, reporting the contact. The Shinano's skipper, having intercepted the communication, believed that an enemy wolf pack was on their track, and altered his course zigging away from the detected sub.
Enright, rather then give chase gambled that the convoy of the CV and its' four escorts would return to their original course. He quickly headed for what he hoped would be a point of interception. During this time, the new, but hardly completed super carrier developed a problem with one of its drive shafts. In order to protect an overheated bearing, Captain Toshio Abe ordered the ship's speed reduced to 18 knots; just the break the Archerfish needed. Sure enough, the Shinano resumed it's original course with the Archerfish now well ahead of the CV's track.
Although ahead of the warship convoy, the Archerfish was still not able to manage a good firing position. Afraid of losing contact again, Enright sent a second encoded message to Pearl which was again intercepted by the Shinano. Unable to decipher the code, Captain Abe reasoned that it was a communication between the wolf pack subs. Fearing an imminent attack he ordered a zig, one that now put his ship on a direct path to the Archerfish.
Enright fired four fish from his bow tubes at a range of about 1500 yards. Watching the TDC, the Archerfish's XO abruptly ordered a new setup. The SS - 311 swung around quickly for a stern shot and Enright sent two more torpedoes at the Shinano. Forty seven seconds after the first of six torpedoes left the tubes, an explosion was heard. Four torpedoes set at 11 feet hit home and quickly flooded a ship that was believed by the IJN to be virtually unsinkable.
They were wrong.