April 1945. The Pacific War had decisively turned in favour for the United States. During the waning days of that month, the ...
Yamato was the lead ship of her class of battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy shortly before World War II. 9pm WORLD WAR II MEGA WEAPONS - History - This series unveils the engineering ...
On the morning of April 7, 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, behemoth of naval engineering and pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy, sortied on what was essentially a suicidal mission. Operation ...
Prior to the days of Tomahawk missiles and aircraft carriers, battleships were the way a nation would flex its muscles at sea. In 1941, as the Imperial Japanese Navy was in the midst of its dash ...
Key point: Later, a navigation officer on one of Japan’s surviving destroyers calculated that the “pillar of fire reached a height of 2,000 meters, that the mushroom-shaped cloud rose to a height of 6 ...