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The Five Most Epic Battleship Showdowns of All Time

When This Battleship Sank, Nearby Sailors Experienced What Felt Like a Nuclear Weapons Blast

The Japanese battleship Yamato in the late stages of construction alongside of a large fitting out pontoon at the Kure Naval Base, Japan, 20 September 1941. U.S. Navy, courtesy of Lieutenant Commander Shizuo Fukui.

Deathmatch: Hitler's Super Warship Bismarck vs. Japan's Mammoth Battleship Yamato

By U.S. Navy photo 80-G-325952, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=382967

This Is the Biggest Battleship Ever Built. It Was Almost Impossible to Sink.

The Austro-Hungarian battleship Viribus Unitis in 1912. Courtesy of the International Naval Research Organization.

Oops! Building These Five Battleships Was a Big Mistake

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Stories From Yamato

Japanese battleship Yamato moments after exploding, after receiving massive bomb and torpedo damage from US Navy carrier planes, north of Okinawa on 7 April 1945 during Japanese Operation Ten-Go. Three Japanese destroyers are nearby.

Japan's Battleship Yamato Exploded 'Like a Tactical Nuclear Weapon Going Off'

When Japan's Yamato Battleship Died: "It Was Like a Tactical Nuclear Weapon Going Off"

Duel Of the Battleships: Who Survives When Japan's Yamato Takes On America's Iowa?

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70,000 Tons of Battleship Terror: How the Biggest Battleship Ever Committed Suicide

See This Picture?: It Proves Why Battleships Were Destined for Death

By Kure Naval Base - http://www.gc2-4.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2197&sid=111174c1d33cc097281fbb0afa147446. This photo is part of the records in the Yamato Museum (PG071320). Search with the kanji characters of Yamato (大和) for the name (second field), and

The Epic Story of How the U.S. Navy Sunk the Imperial Japanese Battleship Yamato

See This Battleship? It Took An Unthinkable Amount of Weapons to Sink It.

Dead Battleship: How the Biggest Warship Ever Was Destroyed During World War II

By Hasuya Hirohata - http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/6421019045/m/1221005465/p/1. This photo is part of the records in the Yamato Museum (PG061427). Search with the kanji characters of Yamato (大和) for the name (second field), and 昭和 for the perio

It Took 7 Bombs and 10 Torpedoes To Kill the Biggest Battleship Ever

By Alexpl - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3305007

Death of a Battleship: How the Biggest Battleship in History Committed Naval Suicide