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 ...

As his Helldiver dive bomber burst straight down out of the clouds at 290 knots, 21-year-old pilot Lt. j.g. Ed Sieber saw the target: Japan's super-battleship Yamato, the largest, most powerful ...

Prior to the days of Tomahawk missiles and aircraft carriers, battleships were the way a nation would flex its muscles at sea. In 1941, as the Imperial Japanese Navy was in the midst of its dash ...

At 14:23, it happened. Yamato’s forward internal magazines detonated in a spectacular fireball. It was like a tactical nuclear weapon going off. Later, a navigation officer on one of Japan’s surviving ...