Built during the twilight of the battleship era, the Yamato embodied the IJN’s ambition to dominate the Pacific through pure naval power. With its unprecedented size, armament, and astounding ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sometimes being a fan of the Space Battleship Yamato/Star Blazers remake series ... every 26-episode season is released into Japanese movie theatres in small chunks of two to four episodes every ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A trip to the drydock isn’t needed, at least not yet. Still, a significant effort is underway to replace the deck of the Battleship of Presidents, nicknamed because she carried President ...