 A Glorious Way to Die : The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato , April 1945 is a 1981 military history book by Russell Spurr about the suicide mission of the Japanese battleship Yamato against the American Pacific Fleet during the Battle of Okinawa near the end of World War II . Yamato was the largest battleship in the world , and Japan sacrificed her to preserve the Japanese fleet. kwietniki.pl
The book was the first to describe the details of the mission, including the suicide mission's code name, "Operation: Lion's Paw," and the suicide mission's code name, "Operation: Lion 's Paw,"