The Twilight Warriors: The Deadliest Naval Battle of World War II and the Men Who Fought It by Robert Gandt

Author:Robert Gandt [Gandt, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: History.war
ISBN: 9780767932431
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Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 2010-11-02T10:00:00+00:00

Something caught Mitsuru Yoshida’s eye as he stood on the bridge. Something red. One of Yamato’s screening destroyers on the port outer edge of the formation, Hamakaze, had just showed her crimson-painted belly. In the next moment her stern seemed to levitate straight out of the water.

Yoshida stared at the stricken destroyer. As in slow motion, Hamakaze dropped back into the sea and rolled over. In less than half a minute the destroyer was gone, leaving in her place a sheet of white foam.

It took Yoshida’s brain several seconds to process what he had just seen. A torpedo had struck Hamakaze’s stern, blowing away the rudder. At almost the same time, a string of bombs landed one after the other on her deck. The combined effect was like smashing a beetle with a hammer.

A few of Hamakaze’s crew had been blown into the sea before the shattered hulk sank. Now Yoshida could see their heads bobbing in the bubbling foam where the destroyer had been. No one was stopping to pick them up.

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