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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Overlapping its wagon, which has had to be extended on the left, this lathe for turning naval gun-barrels was manufactured by Dean, Smith and Grace Ltd during the First World War. The photograph, by ...