Photograph shows U.S. Navy personnel on guard duty aboard Japan’s battleship Yamato shortly after Japan’s surrender in August 1945.
The Yamato was the world’s first battleship equipped with 16-inch main guns. On August 30, 1945, U.S. forces assumed control of the vessel—a symbolic moment marking the formal surrender of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
By the end of the war, the Yamato remained the last operational Japanese battleship afloat. Its service concluded in July 1946 at Bikini Atoll, where it was used as a target ship during U.S. nuclear tests and subsequently sank.
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