Despite the successes of the I-19 in the war, Japan was never able to connect these victories with a larger strategy for ...

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.

Don’t you want me to die in battle?” Hiroshima City resident Reiji Fujimoto, 93, recalled the evening in 1945 when his father ...

America’s largest military shipbuilder has signed a deal with a South Korean company that experts say could be a big step in ...

The ship sank off Cape Bonomisaki on Kagoshima's Satsuma Peninsula at 2:23 p.m. on April 7, 1945, with only 276 of the 3,332 ...

About 300 people attended a memorial service Monday to remember the crew of the battleship Yamato, who died when the U.S.

Editor’s Note: A Good Thunder farm boy and pilot Ensign Jack Carl Fuller died 80 years ago Monday in one of the key battles ...

The Japanese Yamato-class battleships were the most significant vessels ever to steam the high seas. They were gargantuan ...