On November 1st, 1940 the Imperial Japanese Navy launched the Yamato Class Battleship the Musashi. She and her sister ship, Yamato, were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever ...

TOKYO – A former crew member on a Japanese battleship that sank during World War II said Thursday he recognized photos of wreckage discovered this week off the Philippines by a team led by Microsoft ...

The Japanese Imperial Navy’s Musashi battleship and her sister ship, the Yamato were one of two of the world’s heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever built at that time. Displacing 72,800 ...

TOKYO (AP) — Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen and his research team have found the wreckage of a massive Japanese World War II battleship off the Philippines near where it sank more ...

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 who ...

On October 24, 1944, U.S. warplanes swarmed at the Leviathan of battleships, Japan’s Musashi, splashing down torpedoes or dive bombing it. It took them four hours and more than 25 direct hits to put ...

TOKYO >> Debris scattered over a large area at the bottom of sea in the Philippines indicate that the massive Japanese World War II battleship Musashi had blown up in an undersea explosion after it ...

TOKYO -- Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen and his research team announced Wednesday they have found the wreckage of a massive Japanese World War II battleship off the Philippines ...

The World War II-era Japanese battleship Musashi was sunk by U.S. warplanes Oct. 24 1944, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, one of the largest naval battles of the war. Despite numerous eyewitness ...

The live stream from what is believed to be the wreck of the World War II battleship Musashi in the waters around the Philippines began at 9:03 a.m. local time (9:03 p.m. ET) Friday. An underwater ...