The U.S. Navy’s Iowa-class and Japan’s Yamato-class embodied different answers to the same problem: survive enemy gunfire ...
A microscopic model of Japan’s famed World War II battleship Yamato has gone on display at the Yamato Museum Satellite here.
The largest ever mounted on a warship, each gun could fire 3,200-pound (1,460 kg) shells over 26 miles (42 kilometers).