TY - JOUR
T1 - Reconstructing a Second World War Sea Battle
T2 - The Underwater Site of USS Emmons and a Japanese Special Attack Airplane
AU - Katagiri, Chiaki
AU - Nakanishi, Yumiko
AU - Yoshizaki, Shin
AU - Kimura, Hayate
AU - Kan, Hironobu
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by JSPS KAKENHI JP16H0630, JP20K01093 and JP21H04379. We want to thank Isamu Tsukahara, Masayuki Yasue, and Taku Ohara for supporting our scuba-diving survey, Marii Motomura for tracing the figures, Satoshi Yamaki (Chiran Peace Museum) for archival research related to Makoto-tai, Kotaro Yamafune (research associate of the Ship Reconstruction Laboratory at Texas A & M University USA, and a research fellow at Kyushu University Japan) for help in creating our 3D SfM model, and Yuji Yamamoto for providing photographs of the airplane’s engine and the current state of the paravane that is stored in USS Emmons. In the course of contacting the Emmons Foundation in the USA after the publication of the 2018 IJNA paper (Kan et al. 2018), we also had a constructive information exchange and we would like to thank them for their notes. The manuscript was greatly improved by the IJNA editorship and the careful and thought-provoking remarks of two anonymous reviewers.
Funding Information:
This study was supported by JSPS KAKENHI JP16H0630, JP20K01093 and JP21H04379. We want to thank Isamu Tsukahara, Masayuki Yasue, and Taku Ohara for supporting our scuba-diving survey, Marii Motomura for tracing the figures, Satoshi Yamaki (Chiran Peace Museum) for archival research related to Makoto-tai, Kotaro Yamafune (research associate of the Ship Reconstruction Laboratory at Texas A & M University USA, and a research fellow at Kyushu University Japan) for help in creating our 3D SfM model, and Yuji Yamamoto for providing photographs of the airplane’s engine and the current state of the paravane that is stored in USS Emmons. In the course of contacting the Emmons Foundation in the USA after the publication of the 2018 IJNA paper (Kan et al. ), we also had a constructive information exchange and we would like to thank them for their notes. The manuscript was greatly improved by the IJNA editorship and the careful and thought-provoking remarks of two anonymous reviewers.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - USS Emmons is an American Second World War battleship of that sunk off Kouri Island in Okinawa, Japan, as a result of participating in the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. It was attacked by Kamikaze Special Attack Units and became inoperable. A high-quality 3D Structure-from-Motion (SfM) model was created that served to plan diver-based investigations and record the current state of the site. Together with the war-related documents from US and Japan, this research has revealed scientific evidence that has been used to reconstruct the battle of Emmons and the kamikaze planes.
AB - USS Emmons is an American Second World War battleship of that sunk off Kouri Island in Okinawa, Japan, as a result of participating in the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. It was attacked by Kamikaze Special Attack Units and became inoperable. A high-quality 3D Structure-from-Motion (SfM) model was created that served to plan diver-based investigations and record the current state of the site. Together with the war-related documents from US and Japan, this research has revealed scientific evidence that has been used to reconstruct the battle of Emmons and the kamikaze planes.
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U2 - 10.1080/10572414.2021.2018870
DO - 10.1080/10572414.2021.2018870
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85132268663
SN - 1057-2414
VL - 51
SP - 73
EP - 93
JO - International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
JF - International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
IS - 1
ER -