IJN Musashi
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The
battleship Musashi was together with her sister ship Yamato, one of the worlds largest
battleships ever built. She was laid down at Mitsubishi
Kobe in March 1938, and was launched in November 1940. She
was sunk 24.October 1944 by American airplanes from Task
Force 58 under the second phase of the Battle of Leyte
Gulf. She shot down eighteen American airplanes during the
battle, but was herself hit by 19 torpedoes and 17 bombs
before she went down in the deep. 1023 men lost their
lives in the sinking. The wreck was found in 2015 by Paul
Allen on a depth of 900 meter in the Sibuyan Sea outside
the Philippines.
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