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 with the biggest naval guns ever designed. It was meant to defeat several ...

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