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Musashi (Japanese: 武蔵, named after the former Japanese province [2]) was one of four planned Yamato -class battleships [N 1] built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), beginning in the late 1930s.
Mar 17, 2015 · Armed with 46-centimeter main guns—the largest and most powerful of any warship—the Yamato and Musashi were designed to help Japan combat the much larger naval force of the United States during...
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The Yamato-class battleships (大和型戦艦, Yamato-gata senkan) were two battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Yamato and Musashi, laid down leading up to World War II and completed as designed. A third hull, laid down in 1940, was converted to an aircraft carrier, Shinano, during construction.
Mar 4, 2015 · American billionaire Paul Allen has announced the discovery of the famous World War Two Japanese battleship, the Musashi, more than 70 years after it was sunk by US forces.
Sep 8, 2018 · Musashi under attack by American carrier aircraft during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Musashi received a total of 19 torpedo hits, 10 to its port and 9 to its starboard side, 17 bomb impacts, as well as suffering from 18 near-misses on the water near its hull.
Built at Nagasaki, Japan, Musashi was commissioned in August 1942. The sister ship to Yamato was 862 feet long and had a crew of 2,500 sailors. Initially assigned to the Central Pacific to...
Feb 20, 2024 · Japan's Musashi, part of the powerful Yamato-class battleships, represented the pinnacle of Japanese naval ambition. Built in defiance of treaty restrictions, Musashi aimed to outgun any...
