Bismarck's Flaws Exposed: Why This Legendary Battleship Wasn't as Powerful as History Suggests In the more than 80 years since she was sunk much has been written about Germany's flagship ...

USA, Oita Prefecture--The last moments of Japan’s mammoth battleship Yamato were captured in extremely rare color footage taken from U.S. military aircraft in World War II, a war-history group said.

Yamato was equipped with nine 46 cm Type 94 main guns, also making her the most powerfully armed battleship to ever sail the seas.