On April 6, 1945, the massive Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest and most heavily armed warship ever built, departed from Yamaguchi Prefecture on a desperate, one-way mission to Okinawa. As ...

On April 6, 1945, the battleship Yamato, the heaviest and most powerful ever built, set sail from Japan on a one-way mission to Okinawa. With the U.S. forces landing on the island and Japan's ...

Designers of the Yamato intended for this monster battleship to defeat any counterpart from the United States Navy. But the advent of aircraft carriers ensured that no such battle would ever occur.