<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" id="mwAQQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War II">World War II</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Navy" id="mwAQU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Imperial Japanese Navy">Imperial Japanese Navy</a> battleship <i id="mwAQY"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Yamato" id="mwAQc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Japanese battleship Yamato">Yamato</a></i>, one of the two largest ever constructed, is sunk by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy" id="mwAQg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> aircraft during <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ten-Go" id="mwAQk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Operation Ten-Go">Operation Ten-Go</a>.