Yamato and her sister battleship, Musashi ... She was sunk after a catastrophic magazine explosion occurred, tearing apart the ship, sinking it with a loss of 2,498 crewmembers—leaving a ...

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.

About 35 large items--including torpedoes, mines, propellers, the sub-guns of the battleship Mutsu and the large testing equipment used when the Yamato was being built--will be displayed at the ...