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Show I :.' ' y : : : : '; ; : .7 ' . ,: :: : :,,v . ' r 1 ii7:;v; '. ? : :': : : : : ' -: ' :': .; i t " T-frV .'V Officii U. S. Ntvy Photogrtph The Japanese battleship Nag-ato, flajrship for Admiral Yamamoto at the outbreak of the war, was one of Japan's two heaviest pre-war battlewagons. She was commissioned in 1919, and modernized in 1936; fought in th battle for Leyte Gulf in October, 1944, and was heavily damaged by U. S. Navy carrier planes while she lay at the Yokosuka naval base in July, 1945. |