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The Fall of Yamato: Inside the Tragic Destruction of Japan’s Greatest Battleship

On the morning of April 7, 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, behemoth of naval engineering and pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy, sortied on what was essentially a suicidal mission. Operation ...
The National Interest

When Japan's Yamato Battleship Died: "It Was Like a Tactical Nuclear Weapon Going Off"

Key point: The destruction of Yamato was inevitable even as far back as the attack on Pearl Harbor. In early 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy made a difficult decision: it would sacrifice the largest, ...
The National Interest

The Yamato Was Hell to Sink—And It Went Out With a Bang Like a Nuclear Blast

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 ...
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The world’s most impressive battleships and why they still matter

From the towering steel giants of the early 1900s to the sleek, radar-guided behemoths of World War II, battleships were the ...
Al Jazeera English

Battleship Yamato resurfaces on screen

And while the producer’s target of 10 million viewers for the film is ambitious, an even harder task might be in convincing moviegoers in the rest of Asia that it is not a work of implicit nationalism ...
Stars and Stripes

Okinawa peace memorial to add names of Japanese battleship Yamato’s crew

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 ...
Chicago Tribune

JAPAN TO AWAKEN SLEEPING GIANT OF ITS IMPERIAL PAST

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 ...