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.

Despite their formidable design, all three were sunk by U.S. forces. Musashi was destroyed in 1944 during the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea after sustaining heavy bomb and torpedo damage. Yamato met a ...

The behemoth battleship Yamato was dispatched on its ... according to a newly disclosed document. The Yamato was sunk by U.S. carrier-borne aircraft on April 7, 1945, as it sailed toward ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship ... The Yamato was sunk during the closing days of the Pacific ...

American billionaire Paul Allen has announced the discovery of the famous World War Two Japanese battleship, the Musashi, more than 70 years after it was sunk by ... the Yamato, were two of ...