The efforts to find the wreck site had begun 11 years earlier ... All images are Creative Commons photos of Yamato-Class battleships.

Only a handful of photos from Yamato's final hours—many taken from attacking aircraft—have survived. Here, see the dramatic archival images.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's team discovered the wreck of the Japanese battleship Musashi in 2015, 3,280 feet deep in the Philippine Sibuyan Sea. Alongside her sister ship Yamato, Musashi was ...