Yamato met a similar fate in 1945 while on a mission to defend Okinawa, overwhelmed by U.S. carrier-based aircraft. -Shinano, converted into an aircraft carrier, was sunk by the USS Archerfish ...
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 ...
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.
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