the Yamato class’ armament was superior to that of the U.S. Navy’s battleships. These ships were also well designed to withstand aerial bombardment, featuring extremely thick main armor decks ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship ... of Yamato’s main guns, the largest in their class at ...

The Montana-class battleships were envisioned as America’s most formidable warships during World War II, exceeding even the ...

About 35 large items--including torpedoes, mines, propellers, the sub-guns of the battleship Mutsu and the large testing equipment used when the Yamato was being built--will be displayed at the ...