Japanese battleship Yamato
Yamato was the lead ship of her class of battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy shortly before World War II. She and her sister ship, Musashi, were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed. Yamato’s main battery consisted of nine 46-centimetre 45 Caliber Type 94 naval guns. She was dispatched on a one-way mission to Okinawa in...
