Imperial Japan’s Yamato-class battleships were known as the biggest vessels of their kind to ever sail the seas. Before the Second World War, these massive dreadnoughts were introduced as the ...

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.

The Yamato's fate was sealed during Operation Ten-Go, a suicide mission in which the ship was sunk by American carrier-based aircraft on April 7, 1945, marking the end of the battleship era.

The wife asks with amazement, “Does it prepare meals for so many people?” The battleship Yamato of the Imperial Japanese Navy, commissioned in December 1941, was outfitted with a state-of-the- ...