The Yamato and Musashi are remembered for how they sank. The stranger story is how they were built: shipyards torn down and ...
After the Yamato, Japan's engineers asked what could possibly come next, and the answer was a battleship even larger, armed ...
On Apr. 7, 1945, aircraft from the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier task force sank the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Yamato. Escorted by the light cruiser Yahagi and eight ...