Bismarck's secondary batteries and armor quality ... she was less advanced than contemporaries like Japan's Yamato or the U.S. Iowa-class. In the more than 80 years since she was sunk much has ...

Germany's Bismarck gained notoriety for sinking the HMS Hood before being sunk itself. The USS Washington achieved the only one-on-one battleship kill during WWII. -Lastly, Japan's Yamato ...

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.