[ARC5] Yamato

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com
> wrote:

>
> Well, from what I have seen, Japanese technology was what I would
> consider a very curious mix of up-to-date, and very outdated technology.
> For
> instance, one of the links provided on this list some time ago lead to a
> U.S.
> Army intelligence report on Japanese radar. Information included mentioned
> that their inter-deck cabling was extremely crude with no protection for
> that
> cabling, it simply being fed through holes in the deck. No "grommets" or
> strain reliefs. Some of the cabling was in quite large bundles too.
>


That combined with the lack of emphasis placed on even using RADAR
certainly shows why they were caught flat-footed a lot of the time after
Pearl Harbor.


> Wasn't that the "Musashi"?
>

Yep, that's the one. But it was sunk during the war too. The Nagato was the
ship present at Bikini. Still took a pair of shots to sink her. Makes sense
that Yamamoto's flagship for the Pearl Harbor attack would be a good symbol
for atomic testing, but in hindsight - what a museum/war trophy to have
available today.

There probably wasn't a lot of appetite for having anything from the enemy
preserved for the public at that point, particularly that ship. Kudos to
the commies, they preserved one of the two Maus tanks that were fielded at
the end of the war. Bet they have a lot of other goodies squirreled away
still.

~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4