SASEBO NAVAL BASE, Japan — The Japanese Imperial Navy’s Yamato, at one time the world’s largest battleship, is nothing but scrap. This is true for the original, which U.S. forces sank 200 miles from ...
Japanese Lego builder Jun Brick (think that’s his real name?) has been hard at work at a 1:40 model of the famous Battleship Yamato for over a year. This gargantuan model puts the Millennium Falcon to ...
Space Battleship Yamato is the name of a (rather short-lived) Japanese science fiction anime series that was aired on TV in countries other than Nippon some 20 to 30 years ago (outside Japan the anime ...
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The Fall of Yamato: Inside the Tragic Destruction of Japan’s Greatest Battleship
On the morning of April 7, 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, behemoth of naval engineering and pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy, sortied on what was essentially a suicidal mission. Operation ...
Key Point: It was a humiliating end for a battleship capable of twenty-seven knots, but the lack of fuel and other military resources made for truly desperate times. In early 1945, the Imperial ...
Summary: The Yamato, commissioned in 1941, was the largest battleship ever built, marking the peak of battleship engineering before becoming obsolete with the advent of aircraft carriers post-World ...
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