Clarkson's book is a great read (I Know You Got Soul), yes it is basic, but its still great reading...he's a child in a mans body...like most men actually. at 19 I'm apparently an "adult" but i still play console & PC games, watch sport, look at girls and behave like a child (when appropriate) LMAO!
Anyway...I'd completely agree Tom, it is basic, but I wuddnt want anymore technical info in a book like that. Its a good, light read. hehe heres an extract from the Yamato Chaper:
In fact her armour alone weighed more that the total weight of the worlds second-biggest battleship. This was her Raison d'etre. To startle, shock and terrify. We had a ship called Invincible. They had a ship that really was.
and with regards to her 18inch guns
Now the british had once mounted a gun of this size to the "Furious". But it was always felt that a gun of this size would do more damage to the ship from which it was fired than the ship it was aiming at.
One of the crew members from Furious remembers a test firing saying, "The recoil was tremendous. Everytime she fired it was like a snowstorm in my cabin but insted of snowflakes it was sheared rivet heads coming down from the deck and partition."
In other words, one 18inch gun used to tear the Furious apart everytime it was fired. And remember, the Yamato had nine. NINE!
Once I stood next to a tank that fired its miserable shell and the blast damn near knocked me off my feet. So God alone knows what would have happened if the pride of Japan's fleet ever fired all its main guns at once. There'd have been Tsunami's and Hurricanes. It would have been biblical. Real, genuine ocean-parting ferocity. And then some.
Sorry for the off topic, but I just wanted to share that with you all. Hope u like.
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