The behemoth battleship Yamato was dispatched on its suicidal mission to Okinawa in 1945 because of a naval officer's misunderstanding of a question posed by the emperor, according to a newly ...

The Yamato-class battleships, constructed by Imperial Japan during World War II, were the largest and most heavily armed battleships ever built. What You Need to Know: The Yamato-class ...

The USS Washington achieved the only one-on-one battleship kill during WWII. -Lastly, Japan's Yamato, the largest battleship ever built, represented formidable naval power before being sunk in 1945.

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What You Need to Know: The Yamato-class battleships were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, designed by Imperial Japan before World War II to assert naval dominance.

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