-The Yamato's fate was sealed during Operation Ten-Go, a suicide mission in which the ship was sunk by American carrier-based aircraft on April 7, 1945, marking the end of the battleship era. The ...

Once Japan fully isolated itself from the WWI allied powers, its engineers got to work to construct bigger and more formidable warships. Five vessels were initially planned to make up the Yamato ...

On April 6, 1945, the battleship Yamato, the heaviest and most powerful ever built, set sail from Japan on a one-way mission ...

From the U.S.S. Gerald Ford – all 100,000 tons of it – to Japan's monstrous Yamato, World War II's most formidable battleship, there's a lot of ground to cover. This will be a wild ride ...

The Battle off Samar was one of the final large-scale naval engagements of the Pacific Theater, marking the last stand of ...

USA, Oita Prefecture--The last moments of Japan’s mammoth battleship Yamato were captured in extremely rare color footage taken from U.S. military aircraft in World War II, a war-history group said.

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 ...