No other battleship could have survived half that, but eventually the flooding got the best of damage control crews, and at 19:36 on October 24, 1944, Musashi rolled over and sank.

During World War II, the Pacific theater was marked by powerful naval clashes, including the rise and fall of Japan’s ...

The Musashi, commissioned in 1942, sank in October 1944 in the Sibuyan Sea during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, losing about half of its 2,400 crew members. Only a few hundred eventually returned home ...

The Japanese Imperial Navy’s Musashi battleship and her sister ship, the Yamato were one of two of the world’s heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever built at that time ...

The live stream from what is believed to be the wreck of the World War II battleship Musashi in the waters around the Philippines began at 9:03 a.m. local time (9:03 p.m. ET) Friday. An underwater ...

The Musashi was built in secrecy and was said to have been the largest and perhaps most sophisticated battleship when it was commissioned in 1942. It weighed 73,000 tons with a complete load.

American forces sank the 862-foot-long (263 m), 73,000-ton (66,225 metric tons) Musashi on Oct. 24, 1944, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, killing more than 1,000 members of the ship's 2,399 ...

On November 1st, 1940 the Imperial Japanese Navy launched the Yamato Class Battleship the Musashi. She and her sister ship, Yamato, were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever ...

Paul Allen, owner of Seattle Seahawks, Portland Trail Blazers & Seattle Sounders, claims he and his research team have found the Musashi, a massive Japanese World War II battleship, off the ...

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen live-streaming tour of Musashi battleship wreckage tonight by Molly Brown on March 12, 2015 at 11:55 am Share Tweet Share Reddit Email ...