it would sacrifice the largest, most powerful battleships ever built to protect Okinawa, the gateway to Japan’s Home Islands. The decision sealed the fate of the battleship Yamato and its crew ...

The Imperial Japanese Navy's Yamato – along with her sister ship Musashi – was the largest battleship ever constructed. her nine 46cm (18.1-inch) Type 94 main guns employed were the largest ...

and involved the largest battleship in the world, the mighty Yamato. The ship’s keel was laid down on Nov. 4, 1937. The Yamato launched on Aug. 8, 1940, and was commissioned on Dec. 16 ...

Over 80 years later, the Yamato remains the largest and heaviest battleship ever constructed, displacing a total of 72,000 tons. It was 863 feet long. If sheer size wasn't enough, the Yamato ...

What You Need to Know: Japan's Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, embarked on a one-way mission during the final stages of World War II.In April 1945, with just enough fuel for a ...

For decades, the battleship was the symbol of ... vessels and Japan’s two titanic 71,659-ton Yamato-class ships, the largest battleships ever constructed by far. The battleship eventually ...

THE GIANT SUPER BATTLESHIP "YAMATO" IS UNDER ATTACK ... THIS IS THE LARGEST, MOST POWERFUL, MOST DESTRUCTIVE SHIP THE NAVY EVER BUILT. THIS IS THE REAL BUSINESS END OF AMERICAN NAVAL POWER.

Yamato, which had an equally enormous sister battleship in the Musashi ... "This will be the largest and most advanced aircraft carrier ever built outside the United States," Robert Farley ...

Enright served aboard the battleship Maryland after graduation ... but post-war estimates suggested it was the largest aircraft carrier ever built, including extra armor to protect it from torpedoes.