What country built the biggest battleship of WW2?
Many people believe that the German Battleship Bismark was the biggest in World War 2, but Japan built a pair of ships that were larger. The Yamato and her sister ship the Musashi still hold the title as biggest battleships ever built, displacing 72,800 tons each. Both ships had 18 inch main guns which are the largest ever installed on any war ship. The advent of Aircraft Carriers as the supreme type warship ended the race for ever larger Battleships. The U.S. Iowa class Battleships built during WW2 were probably the best of the war and they remained in service for many years after the war. Both the Yamato and the Musashi were sunk by the U.S. Navy during WW2.
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4 Comments
Shelley Welch Dunivan
Nope, it was Y and M in Japan!
Not the first time the United States lied to its citizens. You can't believe everything you've learned over the years. It's becoming quite evident.
Christopher Washburn
I thought the Bismarck was the largest
Rusty
I call bullshit again!!
filmnut
You guys get your history of WW II from the movies. Nobody made a film titled "Sink the Yamoto". "Sink the Bismarck" was a Movie that was made 50 yrs. ago and it was B&W. They also recorded a song with Johnny Horton by the same title. It played on AM radio. My '66 GTO did not have an FM radio! So anyway look up the Yamoto on the you tube, there a great number of documentaries about it. The Japanese were barbarians, savages and stupid. The were "brain dead" and backward. To engage and enrage the US was foolish. After the Dolittle Raid and the Battle of Midway, it was only a matter of time.