Willow Bark. Scientific names: Salix alba, Salix purpurea, Salix fragilis, and other species. Common names: Willow also is known as weidenrinde, white willow (S. alba), purple osier willow/basket willow (S. purpurea), and crack willow (S. fragilis).
Japanese battleship Yamato is sunk by Allied forces. Share this: On this day in 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, ostensibly the greatest battleship in the world, is sunk in Japanâs first major counteroffensive in the struggle for Okinawa. Weighing 72,800 tons and outfitted with nine 18.1-inch guns, the battleship Yamato was Japanâs only hope of destroying the Allied fleet off the coast of Okinawa.
An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus âa secret document completed in 1943 for high-ranking government useâlaid out the superior position of Japan in the Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, showing the subordination of other nations was part of explicit policy and not forced by the war.