Designers of the Yamato intended for this ... very similar position to that which the Japanese found themselves in over 80 years ago, at the start of WWII. Unable to mass produce warships or ...

Once the mighty and highly visible “big hammer” of the US Navy, the big battleships that were brought out of mothballs and ...

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 ...

USA, Oita Prefecture--The last moments of Japan’s mammoth battleship Yamato ... in World War II, a war-history group said. The footage from U.S. archives of the pride of the Imperial Japanese ...

A Historical Icon Immortalized The original Japanese Battleship Yamato ... the-art technology of her time. Yamato represented Japan’s naval dominance during WWII but met a heroic end in 1945 ...

A memorial service marking the 80th anniversary of the sinking of the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Navy's battleship Yamato ... the U.S. military during World War II and laid flowers at the ...

The greatest Japanese battleship of all time returns in Space Battleship Yamato: Resurrection. The movie is based on the Space Battleship Yamato anime series and movies. The television series ...

American billionaire Paul Allen has announced the discovery of the famous World War Two Japanese battleship ... down American torpedo bombers”, the WW2 Database website says.