IJN Musashi
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The
battleship Musashi was together with her sister ship Yamato the worlds largest
battleships ever built. She was sunk 24.October 1944 by
American airplanes under the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Musashi
shot down 18 American planes during the battle, but was
herself hit by 19 torpedoes and 17 bombs before she
disappeared in the deep. 1023 men perished from the crew.
The wreck was found in 2015 on a depth of 910 meter in the
Sibuyan Sea outside the Philippines.
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 Picture: IJN Musashi 武蔵 Wikipedia, Public Domain 
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