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.

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture—The Yamato Museum’s first major renovation ... lathe used to construct the main guns of the World War II battleship. The facility opened in 2005 as the Kure Maritime ...

A memorial service marking the 80th anniversary of the sinking of the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Navy's battleship Yamato was held ... U.S. military during World War II and laid flowers at ...

The film opened in Japan on March 7. It sold 571,000 tickets for 702,817,200 yen (about US$4.78 million) in its first three ...

Dark Seas The Most Explosive WW2 Battleship Showdown Posted: April 9, 2025 | Last updated: April 9, 2025 In the summer of 1940, an Italian flotilla set sail across the Mediterranean to supply ...

Brian G. Hutton's Kelly's Heroes - a similar misfit WW2 picture to Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen - focused on a band of self-interested GIs going AWOL to steal Nazi gold, while Aldrich's 1970 effort ...

David Lean's masterpiece The Bridge on the River Kwai situated a Shakespearean tragedy about the cost of the British stiff upper lip within the South-East Asian Theatre of WW2, while Stanley ...

A Brad Pitt World War 2 movie that has been described a "ciminally underrated" is available to watch on Netflix, but it is set to soon be dropped from the streaming site. This will be in May ...

The historian argued that the film was more convincing than Private Ryan, which he said felt like a "typical World War II movie" outside of the opening Omaha Beach scenes, which he praised.