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Japan hid the biggest battleships ever built so well that US intelligence still thought they had 16-inch guns four months after one sank
The Yamato and Musashi are remembered for how they sank. The stranger story is how they were built: shipyards torn down and rebuilt to hold them, guns so large a ship had to be invented to carry them, ...
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72,000 tons under the waves: Sinking the battleship Yamato took nearly 400 American aircraft and 11 torpedoes
In April 1945, Japan sent the Yamato — the largest and most powerful battleship ever built — on a one-way suicide mission to ...
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 ...
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