Kure Naval Arsenal
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Kure Naval Arsenal was one of four principal naval shipyards owned and operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Kure Naval Arsenal panorama, 1945
Battleship Yamato under construction at Kure Naval Arsenal, 1941
Midget submarines in a drydock at Kure, 1945
Aircraft carrier Sōryū nearing completion, 1937
Yamato-class battleship
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The Yamato-class battleships were two battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Yamato and Musashi. Their keels were laid down in 1937 and 1938, and they were commissioned as designed in 1941 and 194
Kure Naval Arsenal
…and engineering facilities are now owned and operated by Japan Marine United, one of Japan's largest merchant marine and naval shipbuilders. Yamato, Yamato-class battleship (1941) Nagato, Nagato-class battleship (1920…
Yamato undergoing trials in 1941
Musashi, August 1942, taken from the bow
The bridge of Musashi
Yamato and Musashi anchored in the waters off of the Truk Islands in 1943