The ship sank off Cape Bonomisaki on Kagoshima's Satsuma Peninsula at 2:23 p.m. on April 7, 1945, with only 276 of the 3,332 ...

Editor’s Note: A Good Thunder farm boy and pilot Ensign Jack Carl Fuller died 80 years ago Monday in one of the key battles ...

The battleship Yamato of the Imperial Japanese Navy ... April 7 marks the 77th anniversary of the sinking of the Yamato. Its remains still lie at the bottom of the sea off the western coast ...

“The emperor would like to see positive results via the deployment of the Yamato,” surmised Yamada. After the battleship’s sinking, the emperor asked on April 30, 1945, whether “the Yamato ...

Germany's Bismarck gained notoriety for sinking the HMS Hood before being sunk itself. The USS Washington achieved the only one-on-one battleship kill during WWII. -Lastly, Japan's Yamato ...

Alongside her sister ship Yamato, Musashi was among the largest ... had begun 11 years earlier and were based on four different sinking positions in the Sibuyan Sea, including both the "official ...

Of the just over 3,000 men aboard the Yamato on the morning of April 7, 1945, fewer than 300 were alive at day's end. In the interviews below, meet two Yamato veterans still haunted by memories of ...