Summary: The Yamato, commissioned in 1941, was the largest battleship ever built, marking the peak of battleship engineering before becoming obsolete with the advent of aircraft carriers post-World ...

April 1945. The Pacific War had decisively turned in favour for the United States. During the waning days of that month, the ...

In this riveting historical video, witness the dramatic final moments of the mighty battleship Yamato during World War II. Discover the intense and overwhelming assault as bombers swarm the legendary ...

Key Point: It would have been the ultimate duel of dreadnoughts. In one corner, Japan’s Yamato, weighing in at 65,000 tons, the biggest battleship in history. In the other corner, Iowa, at 45,000 tons ...

SASEBO NAVAL BASE, Japan — The Japanese Imperial Navy’s Yamato, at one time the world’s largest battleship, is nothing but scrap. This is true for the original, which U.S. forces sank 200 miles from ...

The first thing to note about “Battleship Yamato: Of War, Beauty and Irony” is what the book is not: It’s neither a historical account of the ill-fated Japanese warship Yamato nor a history of the ...

Japanese battleship Yamato under construction at the Kure Naval Base, Japan, September 20, 1941. The aircraft carrier Hōshō is at the extreme right. The supply ship Mamiya is in the center distance.

Image Credit: U.S. Department of Defense, Public Domain/Wiki Commons. Across land, sea, and sky, the biggest war machines ever built were feats of engineering; statements of power. From battleships ...