1275psi
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The first four hell divers attack from dead ahead, starting their dive from 12000 feet. The maths are brutal. All those guns will have but a window of mere seconds to fire at these killers, from effective range to bomb release. With this attack, not a chance............ Yamato's captain does the only thing he can, "RIGHT FULL RUDDER!" And she swings, Gods, this great beast is remarkably manouverable. The bombs plummet, explode hard on her port bow, the thundering torretts of water reaching as high as her tower...........terrifying ,, but harmless The next four come in , now on her still turning starboard Flank, eager to get in, get out, get away from the marauding fighters still hunting them in this forest of flack Yamato's guns, CLAA Nagara's (sailing almost suicidally close up her arse), snatch three of them away...........the last one misses 8 down 12 to go Astern, screaming down..............again the thundering splashes, and the bright flash of a hit............ "Hit aft sir..........aft barbett.......some casualties...........no significant damage" A 250 kg bomb...............a spitball against this steel. The last 4 come down steep, very, very steep, directly from overhead One will lose control, plunge into the ocean inverted One, however, bombs true. Its another 250 KG bomb, it wobbles the whole way down, almost vertical as it plunges down the starboard side of Yamato's tower. It strikes in the area of the machine gun nest there, destroys it totally, fails to explode, defelected, slams into the roof of the fwd 4.7 inch AA gun, and stops, smoking on the focastle Two men race from one of the AA guns, and kick the smoking, battered bomb over the side Two men have been killed at the machine gun, and one more on the bridge, struck by a tiny splinter, his heart pierced Two men history will quickly forget The Third, Yamamato, not for a long, long time.......................
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