On April 7, 1945, the legendary Yamato – the largest ship in naval history – was attacked by waves of American carrier-borne aircraft while en route to Okinawa to play her part in the Imperial Japanese Navy’s (IJN) desperate last stand. Cornered and outgunned by the Royal Navy squadron, which included the fearsome battleship HMS Warspite (03), the German destroyer flotilla was soundly defeated, thus cementing a vital victory for Allied morale in the uncertain days of the beginning of World War II. However, not even a lifetime’s worth of complex study and grueling exercises drilled into the heads of the British and German commanders could’ve prepared them for the shocking moment when the most prominent war machines ever conceived collided in the defining naval battle of the First World War.