Seventy-seven years after its sinking, the mighty Imperial Japanese Navy Musashi battleship is being brought back to life through rare oral interviews with former crew members and others.

When U.S. forces sank the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Musashi off the Philippines in World War II, about 1,000 of its 2,399 crew members lost their lives. Now, the accounts of 183 of those ...

Comprising three ships—Yamato, Musashi, and Shinano—they featured ... The Yamato ships’ armor-piercing shells weighed roughly 3,200 pounds each and could be fired at targets positioned ...

Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist Paul Allen announced that he has discovered Musashi, a World War II Japanese battleship that was sunk by US forces over 7o years ago. Allen and his research ...

Summary: The Yamato, commissioned in 1941, was the largest battleship ... the Musashi. The munitions were equally large. The 18.1-inch cannons could fire three types of ammunition: armor piercing ...