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, ...
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 ...