Despite its impressive size and firepower, the Yamato proved to be a massive failure in combat, engaging enemy warships only once and sinking just one American carrier. -The Yamato's fate was ...

The Yamato was sunk by U.S. carrier-borne aircraft on April 7, 1945, as it sailed toward Okinawa where its commanders were ordered to beach the vessel and use its mighty arsenal as a gun battery.

The Yamato, sent on a “naval suicide mission” in the final stages of World War II, was attacked and sunk on its way to Okinawa Prefecture. More than 3,000 lives were lost, including Aruga’s.

Its twin ship, the Yamato, was damaged in the fighting ... The Musashi was constructed in March 1938 and sunk October 1944, she was 862ft long, carried a crew of 2.399 and sever aircraft.

For me, telling the story of the Yamato was a private catharsis of sorts. As we made our way through production, I felt like I, too, was sinking into the whirlpool of history swirling around the ...

Yamato, the word, is made up of characters that ... The unearthing and rehabilitation of the sunken warship, raised from the dystopian desert sands of the barren Pacific Ocean bed, set off on ...