KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship Yamato is now on public display at the Kure Maritime Museum here.

What You Need to Know: Japan’s Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, embarked on a one-way mission during the final stages of World War II. In April 1945, with just enough fuel for a single ...

A microscopic model of Japan’s famed World War II battleship Yamato has gone on display at the Yamato Museum Satellite here.

Key Points - The Imperial Japanese Navy's Yamato-class warships were the largest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, boasting massive 18.1-inch main guns. -However, the two ...

Imperial Japan's Yamato-class battleships were the biggest battleships ever built—massive 72,000-ton beasts armed with the largest naval guns ever mounted on a warship, capable of hurling 3,220-pound ...

Second, Western naval intelligence services did a poor job appraising the superbattleships, in part because analysts simply couldn’t fathom that an Asian people like the Japanese could pull off such a ...