This video tells the gripping story of how a US submarine successfully destroyed a rare and powerful Japanese battleship ...

In November 21, 1944, the US submarine USS Sealion came up a group of Japanese warships in the Taiwan Strait. Over several hours early that morning, Sealion attacked the Japanese ships, sinking the ...

The Imperial Japanese Navy’s Yamato – along with her sister ship Musashi – was the largest battleship ever constructed. her nine 46cm (18.1-inch) Type 94 main guns employed were the largest ...

TOKYO – A former crewmember on a Japanese battleship that sank during World War II said Thursday he recognized photos of wreckage discovered this week off the Philippines by a team led by ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The names of Japanese sailors who went down with the Yamato — once the largest battleship afloat during World War II — will be added to a memorial commemorating the ...

The Japanese ships continued sailing, dropping depth charges in the wrong area as they went — much to the relief of Sealion's crew. Kongō slowed, and it and the remaining destroyers eventually ...