It also meant that Yamato and her sister ship needed to be supplied with specialized ammunition that wasn't employed by the IJN's other warships. Then there was the enormous cost of the warship ...

Alongside her sister ship Yamato, Musashi was ... Mitchell made to the utility of warships in the early 1920s." However, it also noted that no air force in the world was capable of inflicting ...

USA, Oita Prefecture--The last moments of Japan’s mammoth battleship Yamato were captured in extremely rare color footage taken from U.S. military aircraft in World ... the ship, it is almost ...