After the Yamato, Japan's engineers asked what could possibly come next, and the answer was a battleship even larger, armed ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Even if the U.S. Navy’s carrier fleet had not intervened, there is no chance that Yamato would have found her way to Okinawa. She would have been severely but not ...

Key Point: Was this a complete waste of time? In January 1936 Japan announced its intention to withdraw from the London Naval Treaty, accusing both the United States and the United Kingdom of ...

Key Points and Summary - Japan’s Design A-150 “Super Yamato” was meant to be the ultimate battleship: up to 70,000–90,000 tons, six 510 mm guns, huge armor belts, and 30-knot speed to crush any U.S.

The final phase of the Pacific war during World War II saw a terrible new tactic: massed kamikaze attacks on American ships by Japanese planes. But the biggest kamikaze attack of all was the suicidal ...