But he would die along with 3,054 sailors when the ship sank. Only 276 personnel survived the Ten-Go Operation. The history ...

Five vessels were initially planned to make up the Yamato class, but only three were completed. The lead ship of the class, the Yamato, was commissioned in 1941, just days after Japan’s deadly ...

“From the weather conditions on record--with thick clouds hanging low--and the wide wake behind the ship, it is almost certain that it is the Yamato,” said Yusuke Orita from the grou ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture–The Defense Ministry has proposed building a multifunctional defense complex at a former steel works site here where the massive battleship Yamato was built ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Yamato took ten torpedo and seven bomb hits, and was hurting badly. Despite counterflooding, the ship continued to list, and once it reached thirty-five degrees ...

The Roberts faced three Japanese battleships, including the Yamato, which was said to be the largest ever built. “This little ship took on the best elements of the Japanese navy, fighting them ...

The Yamato must die a glorious death ... a somber reminder of the failure of war. The ship was a technological wonder, an inspired engineering marvel of its time, particularly for a country ...

Of the just over 3,000 men aboard the Yamato on the morning of April 7, 1945, fewer than 300 were alive at day's end. In the interviews below, meet two Yamato veterans still haunted by memories of ...

Three years since Earth battleship Yamato defeated Comet Empire Gatlantis, the galaxy is a different place. With their home planet nearing its inevitable destruction in the coming decades ...