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 ...

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.

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 ...