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Musashi Expedition – 2 hour TOUR

Paul G. Allen and his research team broadcasted a live-stream tour of the wreckage of the Japanese battleship Musashi, one of the most renowned and technologically advanced battleships in history. Commissioned in 1942, the Musashi was the largest battleship in naval history, weighing in at 73,000 tons fully loaded. It featured eighteen-inch armor plating and was armed …

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Video sheds light on sinking of the Musashi

Debris scattered over a large area at the bottom of the sea in the Philippines indicate that the massive Japanese World War II battleship Musashi was blown into pieces in an undersea explosion 70 years ago. “The wreck is actually very damaged,” said David Mearns, a marine scientist on the Musashi research team. “It appears she …

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Reiichi Chigira - Battleship Musashi

Japanese crew member of sunken battleship Musashi feels ‘sense of destiny’

A former crew member of the Battleship Musashi of the Imperial Japanese Navy that was sunk by U.S. forces during World War II, said he felt “a sense of destiny” in the apparent discovery of the battleship by a U.S. billionaire almost 70 years after the war’s end. “I never thought the Musashi would be …

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