-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. The ...

What You Need to Know: The Yamato-class battleships were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, designed by Imperial Japan before World War II to assert naval dominance.

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 War II, a war-history group said.