At 2:05 PM, she began to sink and at 2:23, she exploded (Fires have reached the main magazines). Despite her crew's desperate attempt to repel the incoming waves of aircraft and leveling the ship (Via purposely flooding compartments, even the engine and boiler compartments, since the damage control station was destroyed), she eventually gave way to the endless rain of fire and started to uncontrollably capsize. Later, she came to help Operation Ten-Go, where she meets her fate from above. The first battle she participated in was during the Battle of the Philippine Sea and then the Battle of the Leyte Gulf (During that battle, she sank an escort carrier and a destroyer, but withdrawn from a well-played torpedo from another destroyer). Surprisingly, Yamato was actually commissioned in 1942, but did not serve any real action, as she was stationed at a naval base, for most of the war. America's submarines and carriers already dominated over the crippled IJN fleet. However, she arrived too late to both the US and Japanese. She, along with her sister ship Musashi, was the most heavy-armed and heaviest battleship ever designed and built (The Montana, could've matched the Yamato if she didn't remain on paper and Yamato's third sister ship the Shinano was converted into an aircraft carrier after her hull was only built). The first of her kind of the Yamato Class.

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