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One Submarine vs the Largest Ship Ever Built: The Sinking of Japan’s Secret Supercarrier

November 1944. Off Japan’s coast, the USS Archerfish tracks an enormous shadow across the sea. Its captain, Joseph Enright, ...
The National Interest

Japan's Monster Battleships Were the Biggest Ever. This Is What It Took to Sink Them.

Japan's Monster Battleships Were the Biggest Ever. This Is What It Took to Sink Them. The destruction of Yamato was inevitable even as far back as the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was clear that the age ...
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WWII sinking of battleship Yamato a symbol of Japan's mad war

The forward auxiliary battery on the sunken Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato is seen in this photo provided by the Yamato Museum. TOKYO -- When the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato ...
The National Interest

Japan’s Monster Battleships Were the Biggest Ever. This Is What It Took to Sink Them.

At 14:23, it happened. Yamato’s forward internal magazines detonated in a spectacular fireball. It was like a tactical nuclear weapon going off. Later, a navigation officer on one of Japan’s surviving ...