The USS Washington achieved the only one-on-one battleship kill during WWII. -Lastly, Japan's Yamato, the largest battleship ... 1940s as one of the Navy’s Iowa-class fast battleships.

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.