Here’s What You Need to Remember: The imperial ambitions of Kaiserine Germany are worth remembering. Both US and Japanese policy in the Pacific in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ...

Key Point: Germany’s slow-moving battleship would not fare well against her swift Japanese counterparts. Prior to World War One, Germany held extensive territories in the Pacific. A German Empire ...

Designers of the Yamato intended for this monster battleship to defeat any counterpart from the United States Navy. But the advent of aircraft carriers ensured that no such battle would ever occur.

Prior to the days of Tomahawk missiles and aircraft carriers, battleships were the way a nation would flex its muscles at sea. In 1941, as the Imperial Japanese Navy was in the midst of its dash ...

HONOLULU (AP) - U.S. and Japanese museums are forming a partnership to preserve and promote the history of the battleship USS Missouri and the Japanese battleship Yamato. In September 1945, the ...

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 ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A microscopic model of Japan’s famed World War II battleship Yamato has gone on display at the Yamato Museum Satellite here. The 1-millionth-scale model is just 0.263 ...

Key Points and Summary – This piece explores a great naval “what if”: a gun duel between America’s never-built Montana-class ...

The forward auxiliary battery on the sunken Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato is seen in this photo provided by the Yamato Museum. TOKYO -- When the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato ...