By this time, there wasn’t much left of the Japanese navy that was still operational, and fuel was in critically short supply. This was taken by senior Japanese navy leaders as implicit criticism of their service’s inaction. He asked what the Japanese navy was doing. Yamato was essentially doomed by a question from Emperor Hirohito during a briefing on 29 March about plans for Japanese air opposition to expected landings on Okinawa. landings on Okinawa commenced 1 April 1945, but carrier strikes and shore bombardment began a week earlier and the landings on the small islands of the Kerama-shōtto group just southwest of Okinawa occurred on 27 March.) invasion of the island of Okinawa, which Japanese intelligence correctly determined would occur at the end of March 1945. Operation Ten-ichi-go was the Imperial Japanese Navy’s plan to react to the U.S. Over the next days, additional messages were intercepted and decrypted by Fleet Radio Unit Pacific (FRUPAC) and also OP-20-G in Washington that provided increasingly detailed information on the operation’s timing and made specific mention of Yamato on 5 April. The execute order for Operation Ten-ichi-go (“Heaven Number One”) was intercepted on 26 March 1945 and decrypted. Fifth Fleet, knew what the battleship Yamato’s mission was before almost anyone on Yamato did.
Navy commanders in the Pacific, including Admiral Raymond Spruance, Commander U.S.
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