WWII B&W Photo IJN Battleship Musashi Deck View WW2 World War Two Japan / 7055

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IJN Musashi
This is a nice reproduction of an original WW2 photograph showing a view from the forward deck of the the Japanese Battleship Musashi.
Size is about 4" x 6".
Musashi
(
武蔵
?
), named after
an ancient Japanese province
,
[1]
was one of two
Yamato
-class
battleships
[N 1]
built for the
Imperial Japanese Navy
, beginning in the late 1930s. The
Yamato
-class ships were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed,
[3]
displacing 72,800 long tons (74,000 t) fully loaded and armed with nine 46-centimetre (18.1 in) main guns. Her
secondary armament
consisted of four 15.5-centimetre (6.1 in) triple-gun turrets formerly used by the
Mogami
-class
cruisers
. She was equipped with six or seven
floatplanes
to conduct reconnaissance.
Commissioned in mid-1942,
Musashi
was modified to serve as the
flagship
of the
Combined Fleet
and spent the rest of the year
working up
. The ship was transferred to
Truk
in early 1943 and sortied several times that year with the fleet in unsuccessful searches for American forces. She was used to transfer forces and equipment between Japan and various occupied islands several times in 1944.
Musashi
was torpedoed in early 1944 by an American
submarine
and forced to return to Japan for repairs where the navy greatly augmented her
anti-aircraft armament
. The ship was present during the
Battle of the Philippine Sea
in June, but did not come in contact with American forces.
Musashi
was sunk by an estimated 19 torpedo and 17 bomb hits from American carrier aircraft on 24 October 1944 during the
Battle of Leyte Gulf
. Over half of her crew were rescued.
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