The legendary Yamato. The largest battleship in the world ... with orders to beach and fight to the end. But even this final mission was cut short by over 200 American planes.

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 ...

The battleship Yamato of the Imperial Japanese Navy ... Kosaku Aruga (1897-1945), who commanded the Yamato during its final mission, is said to have been a considerate husband.