At dawn on April 7, 1945, the battleship Yamato set sail on Operation Ten-Go - a desperate, one-way charge toward Okinawa ...
Infernos raged aboard Japanese aircraft carriers after U.S. Navy dive-bombers found their marks during the Battle of Midway. Many Japanese pilots were ...
A tour of the heaviest military machines ever built, from super-heavy tanks and rail guns to record-setting bombers, submarines, battleships, and modern aircraft carriers—each compared to the weight ...
Designed to overpower any enemy afloat, Yamato represented the peak of Japanese battleship engineering. Armed with the largest naval guns ever mounted and protected by unprecedented armor, the ship ...
The USN used many B-24 Liberators with great success for long-range patrol and anti-submarine warfare, designating them the ...
The 3-season animated hit Star Blazers, based on the popular anime Space Battleship Yamato, revolutionized the genre in ...
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 ...
TOKYO (AP) — Leiji Matsumoto, the anime creator known for ”Space Battleship Yamato” and other classics using a fantastical style and antiwar themes, has died at age 85. His manga works “Galaxy Express ...