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.
The Imperial Japanese Navy’s Hyūga Was the Last Battleship Sunk in Combat: The second and last of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s (IJN’s) Ise-class, Hyūga has the distinction of being the last battleship ...
A single torpedo salvo from I-19, often called one of the most damaging in submarine warfare history, singlehandedly crippled an entire carrier task force. Commissioned in the early days of World War ...