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nog een artikeltje over de Shinano :)

Ballistic Tests on the IJN Shinano's Turret Face Armor
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SUBJECT: 

Test of 26" (66cm) Class "A" Main Armament Turret Face (Port) Plate, originally for IJN SHINANO, the third Japanese YAMATO-Class super-battleship (converted into an aircraft carrier, instead, and sunk on its way to final fitting out yard by a U.S. submarine), which made up far left side of turret face looking from inside turret out of gun port, with "D"-shaped cutout making up about half of left curved gun port forming center of long right side of plate. 

PLATE MATERIAL: 

Japanese Vickers Hardened (VH) face-hardened, non-cemented armor (used only on YAMATO-Class battleships) ...

Thanks to Rockhound57 :)