Key Points and Summary – Japan’s Design A-150 “Super Yamato” was meant to be the ultimate battleship: up to 70,000–90,000 ...

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 ...

Key Point: The German squadron has a three-knot speed advantage, which it uses to try to pull away from the Japanese and avoid the engagement. However, the Japanese have a clear geographic advantage; ...

Yamato was the lead ship of her class of battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy shortly before World War II. 9pm WORLD WAR II MEGA WEAPONS - History - This series unveils the engineering ...

Every filmmaker has a program that embodies the fulfillment of a lifetime objective. For me, "Sinking the Supership" was that program. As the child of a Japanese father and an American mother, I had ...

When it was launched in 1941, the Yamato was a floating metaphor for Imperial Japan–powerful, brash, seemingly invincible. For four years it plied the China Seas as flagship of the Imperial Japanese ...

Taffy 3—consisting of six escort carriers, three destroyers, and four destroyer escorts—was there to cover troops storming ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture—The Yamato Museum’s first major renovation project will expand the facility so that it can display such items as the mammoth lathe used to construct the main guns of the ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The names of Japanese sailors who went down with the Yamato — once the largest battleship afloat during World War II — will be added to a memorial commemorating the Battle of ...