What You Need to Know: The Yamato-class battleships were ... first laid down prior to World War II, they were the heaviest of their kind ever built. These great warships were expected to lead ...

USA, Oita Prefecture--The last moments of Japan’s mammoth battleship Yamato were captured in extremely rare color footage taken from U.S. military aircraft in World War II, a war-history group said.

In a scene from the 2016 animated film “Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni” (In This Corner of the World), a colossal ... for so many people?” The battleship Yamato of the Imperial Japanese Navy ...