But he would die along with 3,054 sailors when the ship sank. Only 276 personnel survived the Ten-Go Operation. The history of the Yamato goes back to the 1930s, when Japan began building a fleet ...

To make matters more concerning for Allied naval forces, the Yamato had a nearly identical sister ship named the "Musashi" and a planned third ship. However, the Musashi sank in 1944 and the third ...

The only other element of the ship painted gold was the ship's name, which like the crest was a powerful symbol. "Yamato" is a poetic, even mystical synonym for Japan itself. While dwarfed by the ...

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.

“From the weather conditions on record--with thick clouds hanging low--and the wide wake behind the ship, it is almost certain that it is the Yamato,” said Yusuke Orita from the grou ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture–The Defense Ministry has proposed building a multifunctional defense complex at a former steel works site here where the massive battleship Yamato was built ...

It fought three Japanese battleships, including the Yamato, said to be the largest ever constructed. The US ship carried 224 crewmembers, 89 of whom were killed. Captain Robert W. Copeland was one ...

The ship, about 376 feet (115 meters ... largest warship ever constructed — the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato — and ferociously fought back." "All of the accounts pay tribute ...