The Yamato and Musashi are remembered for how they sank. The stranger story is how they were built: shipyards torn down and ...
After the Yamato, Japan's engineers asked what could possibly come next, and the answer was a battleship even larger, armed ...
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.