About 35 large items--including torpedoes, mines, propellers, the sub-guns of the battleship Mutsu and ... The one-tenth size model of the Yamato is a prime attraction, but the museum has also ...

On April 6, 1945, the battleship Yamato, the heaviest and most powerful ever built, set sail from Japan on a one-way mission to Okinawa. With the U.S. forces landing on the island and Japan's ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe believed to have been used to fashion the main guns of Japan's mighty World War II battleship Yamato was in danger of becoming a rusting relic until a ...