What You Need to Know: Japan's Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, embarked on a one-way mission during the ...
Comprising three ships—Yamato, Musashi, and Shinano—they featured unprecedented 18-inch guns capable of firing 3,200-pound shells over 25 miles. -Despite their formidable design, all three ...
About 35 large items--including torpedoes, mines, propellers, the sub-guns of the battleship Mutsu and ... The one-tenth size model of the Yamato is a prime attraction, but the museum has also ...
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.