On April 6, 1945, the massive Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest and most heavily armed warship ever built, departed from Yamaguchi Prefecture on a desperate, one-way mission to Okinawa. As ...

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 ...

The battleship Yamato was among the largest and most powerful battleships of all time.Yamato has reached nearly mythical status, a perfect example of Japan’s fascination with doomed, futile heroics.

The Yamato was unique compared to other warships from the era, not only because it was the largest battleship on the sea. It was different in that it embodied the entire Imperial Japanese war ...

Yamato, which had an equally enormous sister battleship in the Musashi, took almost seven years to finish. Finally arriving in December 1941, its fearsome weaponry included the biggest gun ever ...

The Yamato—along with her sister ship Musashi—was the largest battleship ever constructed: 862 feet and 10 inches long and 121 feet long at its widest point.

As his Helldiver dive bomber burst straight down out of the clouds at 290 knots, 21-year-old pilot Lt. j.g. Ed Sieber saw the target: Japan's super-battleship Yamato, the largest, most powerful ...

24/7 Tempo consulted sources including Navy General Board, Largest.org, Militaryfactory, Militarymachine, and PearlHarbor to compile a list of the biggest battleships in history, using ...

The Yamato was one of the two largest battleships ever built and featured the largest guns ever fielded on the high seas. Its sister ship, the Musashi, was sunk during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.