In April 1945, Yamato — the largest battleship ever built — steamed toward Okinawa on a one-way mission. Hundreds of American aircraft found her first. Explosions ripped through the ship until she ...

Japanese battleship Yamato, pictured here in October 30, 1941, was spotted by US sub USS Sealion in November 1944.Imperial Japanese Navy In November 21, 1944, the US submarine USS Sealion came up a ...

Key point: Later, a navigation officer on one of Japan’s surviving destroyers calculated that the “pillar of fire reached a height of 2,000 meters, that the mushroom-shaped cloud rose to a height of 6 ...

On Apr. 7, 1945, aircraft from the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier task force sank the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial ...

Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita’s Center Force, including the massive battleship Musashi, sailed into the Sibuyan Sea aiming to ...

The largest, most massive battleships to ever exist were the Japanese Yamato-class WWII-era warships which incorporated nine ultra-large 460mm 18.1-inch naval guns. The large weapons, designed for ...

(Reuters) - Some of the first video taken of the sunken Japanese battleship Musashi, newly discovered by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's exploration team, reveals that the vessel broke apart before ...

In November 21, 1944, the US submarine USS Sealion came up a group of Japanese warships in the Taiwan Strait. Over several hours early that morning, Sealion attacked the Japanese ships, sinking the ...