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Iowa-Class Battleship vs. Yamato-Class: Which Battleship Wins Summed up in 4 Words

The U.S. Navy’s Iowa-class and Japan’s Yamato-class embodied different answers to the same problem: survive enemy gunfire ...
The National Interest

Yamato: Japan Sent the Biggest Battleship Ever On a 1 Way ‘Final’ Mission

What You Need to Know: Japan’s Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, embarked on a one-way mission during the final stages of World War II. In April 1945, with just enough fuel for a single ...
The National Interest

Yamato: Biggest Battleship Ever Was 72,000 Tons of Raw Naval Power

Summary: The Yamato, commissioned in 1941, was the largest battleship ever built, marking the peak of battleship engineering before becoming obsolete with the advent of aircraft carriers post-World ...
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Okinawa peace memorial to add names of Japanese battleship Yamato’s crew

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The names of Japanese sailors who went down with the Yamato — once the largest battleship afloat during World War II — will be added to a memorial commemorating the Battle of ...