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performed admirably and are remembered fondly by crewmembers and recorded history. T e book’s contents include a list of abbreviations, Class Origins, T e Design Process, From Construc- tion to Delivery, Design Description, Wartime Im- provements, Wartime Operations & Performance, Post-War Requirements & Repair, Post-War Opera- tions & Disposal, Evaluation, with appendices that cover Camoufl age & Appearance, Supermarine Wal- rus, Battle Honours, Bibliography, and an index. T is title sets a very high standard for comprehensiveness.
T e book is heavily illustrated. T ere are no fewer than 278 black & white photographs which generally are quite sharp. Many of them are reproduced full- page and at least eighteen are spread across two pages to make details more discernible. T is is a dramatic touch which draws the reader into the image creat- ing the illusion that he is seeing the action fi rst-hand. Several photographs are in color, and the list of illus- trations includes over thirty-fi ve plan views, inboard and outboard profi le drawings, fi ſt een line drawings, and fourteen color profi les. T e pièce de résistance is an incredible presentation of fold-out color con- structors’ drawings taken from the National Mari- time Museum at Greenwich archives: two are two- page fold-outs while the third is a four-page color inboard general arrangement profi le of Southampton
produced by one of the class builders, John Brown & Company. T ese are nothing less than a grand visual treat.
T is reviewer was greatly impressed by this volume and recommends it very highly.
— Robert N. Steinbrunn Phelps, Wisconsin
T e Battleships Yamato and Musashi: Selected Photos from the Archives of the Kure Maritime Museum
Edited by the Kure Maritime Museum and Kazushige Todaka
Translated by Robert D. Eldridge
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2019 12” x 8-1/2”, hardcover, 143 pages
Photographs, scale drawings. $75.00 ISBN: 9781682473856
T is book is a compilation of photographs of the super-battleships Yamato and Musashi from the col- lection at the Kure Naval Museum. Kure shipyard is where Yamato was built (Musashi was built at the Mitsubishi Shipyard in Nagasaki) and is the location of a 1:10-scale model of the battleship. T e book is hardbound with an attractive jacket displaying Yam- ato during its 1941 sea trials. T e book contains 144 pages and is primarily a compilation of photographs from construction to each ship’s fi nal battle (Musashi was sunk in October 1944 and Yamato in April 1945).
T e book begins with 39 images of Yamato followed by 34 images of Musashi. T ere are 25 memorial plates taken aboard both ships. T is is followed by 26 technical drawings from the original design team members of the ships. T ey saved the drawings in their personal collections. T ese proved very valuable since most Yamato-class drawings were destroyed aſt er the war, making these drawings very rare. T e
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