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.

The ship’s keel was laid down on Nov. 4, 1937. The Yamato launched on Aug. 8, 1940, and was commissioned on Dec. 16, 1941. Fully-laden displacement was a massive 72,000 tons, hull length was 862 ...

THAT'S APPROXIMATELY AN AVERAGE FAMILY CAR, SO THIS IS ACTUALLY A FAMILY CAR SLAMMING INTO ANOTHER SHIP. NARRATOR: THE "YAMATO" OUTGUNS EVERY SHIP IN THE WORLD, BUT NAVAL DESIGNER HIRAGA IS ...