USA, Oita Prefecture--The last moments of Japan’s mammoth battleship Yamato were captured in ... U.S. archives of the pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy was released in Japan on May 12.
But no American battleship holds the same degree of cultural relevance as the Japanese Yamato. The largest battleship ever constructed, Yamato was completed shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack ...
Japan’s first super aircraft carrier, the IJN Shinano, began as a battleship and was converted in response to devastating carrier losses at Midway. However, on her maiden voyage in November 1944, she ...
“Historical records related to the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Yamato ... the sub-guns of the battleship Mutsu and the large testing equipment used when the Yamato was being built--will ...
After learning that his wife Capt. Yuki Mori-Kodai disappeared in the battle and that legendary space battleship Yamato has been fully rebuilt, Susumu Kodai accepts command of the ship as he ...
The Musashi was built as part of the Yamato class of vessels planned in ... Akira Yoshimura, in the book Battleship Musashi: The Making and Sinking of the World’s Biggest Battleship, goes ...
The Yamato must die a glorious death.” For me, one of the most fascinating aspects of the story was the controversial command issued by the Imperial Japanese Navy that sent nearly 3,000 men to ...
The Earth Defense Force rebuilds the battleship Yamato with a new type of propulsion system to make the 148,000 light year trip to Iscandar in hopes of saving the Earth. Within one year ...
The first image generated of a scuttled German battleship at Scapa Flow after a multibeam echosounder survey has been released. The Markgraf was among dozens of ships from the German High Seas ...