On Apr. 7, 1945, aircraft from the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier task force sank the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial ...
Japan's Monster Battleships Were the Biggest Ever. This Is What It Took to Sink Them. The destruction of Yamato was inevitable even as far back as the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was clear that the age ...
Japanese battleship Yamato, pictured here in October 30, 1941, was spotted by US sub USS Sealion in November 1944.Imperial Japanese Navy In November 21, 1944, the US submarine USS Sealion came up a ...
Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita’s Center Force, including the massive battleship Musashi, sailed into the Sibuyan Sea aiming to ...
During a critical Pacific patrol, an American submarine encountered one of Japan’s least common and most valuable battleships ...
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 ...
The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval engagement in history, a sprawling affair that lasted from Oct. 23 to 26, 1944, involving four major engagements. In spite of hopeless odds, Japanese Adm ...
The largest, most massive battleships to ever exist were the Japanese Yamato-class WWII-era warships which incorporated nine ultra-large 460mm 18.1-inch naval guns. The large weapons, designed for ...
HONOLULU (KHON2) – The Government of Japan has recently awarded the Battleship Missouri Memorial’s president the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon. President and Chief Executive ...