As his Helldiver dive bomber burst straight down out of the clouds at 290 knots, 21-year-old pilot Lt. j.g. Ed Sieber saw the target: Japan's super-battleship Yamato, the largest, most powerful ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The destruction of Yamato was inevitable even as far back as the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was clear that the age of the aircraft carrier had already superseded the ...

The Japanese battleship Yamato was underprepared when it embarked on a kamikaze mission against US forces invading Okinawa and sank near the end of World War II due to a naval officer misinterpreting ...