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The Yamashiro should have been scrapped in the 1930s. She was an experimental and peculiar piece of naval technology, born from a volatile era in maritime development which had no place in the battlefields of World War 2.

However, an unexpected chain of events kept her and her World War 1era sister ships from the scrapyard. Instead, it thrust them into the Pacific theater of the war’s decisive closing stages. In a lastditch effort to change the outcome, Japan sent out these aging warriors in a bid for survival.

This set the stage for a dramatic and fierce confrontation in the Surigao Strait. The Yamashiro and her sister ship Fuso faced off against the American battleships California, West Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania—vessels resurrected from the depths of Pearl Harbor.
In the predawn darkness of October 25, 1944, the seas churned as the last battleshiptobattleship clash erupted. Outgunned and outclassed, the Yamashiro and her crew were prepared to fight to their last breath and meet their fate with honor.

The American fleet attempted a devastating naval tactic known as “Crossing the T.” The battle’s outcome and the honor of the valiant Yamashiro were entangled in this daring move, which the Americans had not effectively used since 1898.