Named after the former Japanese province of Musashi, she was one of three Yamato-class battleships constructed for the Imperial Japanese Navy beginning in the late 1930s. These would prove to be ...

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 ...