The behemoth battleship Yamato was dispatched on its suicidal mission to Okinawa in 1945 because of a naval officer's misunderstanding of a question posed by the emperor, according to a newly ...

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 ...

What You Need to Know: Japan’s Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, embarked on a one-way mission during the final stages of World War II. In April 1945, with just enough fuel for a single ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Sixty years after the colossal battleship Yamato was sunk, the pride of Japan's wartime navy is once again an object of fascination. The ￡3million replica deck, made for the film Men of the Yamato, ...