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.
In this case, the Dockwise Vanguard is the biggest, at only 91,238 GT and 263 m. 7.) The WWII-era Japanese Yamato was the biggest battleship ever made, displacing 71,659 tonnes and stretching 256 meters, but the proposed Nazi Schlachtschiff H-44 would have dwarfed it. 131,000 tonne displacement and 345 m long.