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Imperial Japanese battleship Musashi located. No sign of Captain Inoguchi
2015-03-04
[BBC] 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.

Mr Allen said the vessel was found by his private exploration team. It was at a depth of more than 1km (3,280ft) on the floor of the Sibuyan Sea off the Philippines.

The Musashi and its sister vessel, the Yamato, were two of the largest battleships ever built. US warplanes sank the Musashi on 24 October 1944 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, believed to be the biggest naval encounter of World War Two in which American and Australian forces defeated the Japanese.
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#3  Take the book Twilight Soldiers, break it into three parts, and you have a movie that would make LoTR boring.

Or the Hornfischer trio - lead with the Galloping Ghost, spend a goodly portion with Neptune's inferno, and end with Taffy 3.

And no goddam afflak love story bullcrap.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2015-03-04 18:32  

#2  Hah! Careful with that precedent - may allow Italy to claim their harbors.

I find it unfortunate we can't get a series of movies based upon Liberation of/Philippine Sea, or Guadalcanal, or Empires of the Sea.

Instead we get re-hashes, or trilogies where a mushroom eating wizard bunny herder inserted, or Ben Afflak.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2015-03-04 18:19  

#1  likely an undersea coral island now, entitling Japan to claim it as sovereign territory. Your move, China
Posted by: Frank G   2015-03-04 14:48  

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