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was the last major Japanese naval operation in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Other renderings of this operation's title in English include Operation Heaven One and Ten-ichi-gō. In April 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato (the largest battleship in the world)—along with nine other Japanese warships—embarked from Japan on a deliberate suicide attack upon Allied forces engaged in the Battle of Okinawa. The Japanese force was attacked, stopped, and almost completely destroyed by United States carrier-borne aircraft before reaching Okinawa. Yamato and five other Japanese warships were sunk.

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  • Operation Ten-Go
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  • was the last major Japanese naval operation in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Other renderings of this operation's title in English include Operation Heaven One and Ten-ichi-gō. In April 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato (the largest battleship in the world)—along with nine other Japanese warships—embarked from Japan on a deliberate suicide attack upon Allied forces engaged in the Battle of Okinawa. The Japanese force was attacked, stopped, and almost completely destroyed by United States carrier-borne aircraft before reaching Okinawa. Yamato and five other Japanese warships were sunk.
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Partof
  • the Pacific Theater of World War II
Date
  • 1945-04-07(xsd:date)
Commander
  • Joseph J. Clark
  • Seiichi Itō
  • Keizō Komura
  • Frederick C. Sherman
  • Kosaku Aruga
  • Marc Mitscher
Caption
  • under attack. A large fire burns aft of her superstructure and she is low in the water from torpedo damage.
Casualties
  • 1(xsd:integer)
  • 4(xsd:integer)
  • 10(xsd:integer)
  • 227(xsd:integer)
  • Attack on Yamato task force: 12 aircrew dead
  • In kamikaze attacks:
  • Kamikaze: 100 aircraft destroyed, 100+ dead
  • Yamato task force: 3,700–4,250 dead
Result
  • American victory
Place
  • Pacific Ocean, between Kyūshū, Japan and Ryūkyū Islands
Conflict
  • Operation Ten-Go
  • 天號作戰 or 天号作戦
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  • was the last major Japanese naval operation in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Other renderings of this operation's title in English include Operation Heaven One and Ten-ichi-gō. In April 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato (the largest battleship in the world)—along with nine other Japanese warships—embarked from Japan on a deliberate suicide attack upon Allied forces engaged in the Battle of Okinawa. The Japanese force was attacked, stopped, and almost completely destroyed by United States carrier-borne aircraft before reaching Okinawa. Yamato and five other Japanese warships were sunk. The battle demonstrated U.S. air supremacy in the Pacific theater by this stage in the war and the vulnerability of surface ships without air cover to aerial attack. The battle also exhibited Japan's willingness to sacrifice large numbers of its people in desperate kamikaze attacks aimed at slowing the Allied advance on the Japanese home islands.[citation needed]
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