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Yamato was the largest battleship ever built — 386 American planes sank her before she could fire on a US battleship
On April 7, 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato — the largest battleship ever built, displacing nearly 72,000 ...
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..
Designers of the Yamato intended for this monster battleship to defeat any counterpart from the United States Navy. But the advent of aircraft carriers ensured that no such battle would ever occur.
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