On April 7, 1945, the battleship Yamato, the pride of Japan's navy,
succumbed to American airpower in the Pacific. A cataclysmic series of
explosions tore the massive ship in half and sent her to the
seafloor with, tragically, most of her crew of about 3,000. Only a handful of photographs
from Yamato's final hours—many of them taken from attacking
aircraft—have survived. Click on the image at left to launch this slide
show and view dramatic archival images from the sinking of Japan's
supership.—Lexi Krock
