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BB Musashi
Imperial Japanese Navy battleship
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| Class | Laid down, Shipyard | Launched | Commissioned | Disabled and Why | |
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| Jamato | 1938/03/29 Micubishi Nagasaki | 1940/11/01 | 1942/08/05 | 1944/10/24
sunk | |
| Namesake: A province, includes Tokyo | |||||
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WW II combat actions:
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| From | Till | Operation | Force | Action | Source |
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| 42/10 | 42/11 | Inland Sea - training, gunnery exercises | 99 | ||
| 42/12 | Inland Sea - exercises with Zuikaku, Jamashiro and Fuso | 99 | |||
| 43/01/18 | 43/01/23 | sail from Iwakuni to Truk | 99 | ||
| 43/01/23 | 43/05/17 | Truk | 99 | ||
| 43/01/31 | 43/02/09 | KE | ResFor | Truk - reserve for Guadalcanal evacuation | 103 |
| 43/03/28 | damage(Tunny) off Palau | ||||
| 43/05/17 | 43/05/22 | CF | sail from Truk to Jokosuka | ||
| 43/05/23 | transferred Adm Jamamoto's ashes to Jugumo | 99 | |||
| 43/06/09 | 43/06/23 | at sea out of Jokosuka | 99 | ||
| 43/06/24 | Jokosuka - visited by emperor and other officials | 99 | |||
| 43/07/01 | 43/07/31 | Kure (at drydock 07/01-07/08) | 99 | ||
| 43/07/31 | 43/08/05 | sail from Jokosuka to Truk | 99 | ||
| 43/10/17 | 43/10/26 | departed Truk in response to US raids on Wake Is | 99 | ||
| 43/10/26 | 44/02/10 | Truk | 99 | ||
| 44/02/10 | 44/02/14 | sail from Truk to Jokosuka | 99 | ||
| 44/02/24 | 44/02/29 | sail from Jokosuka to Palau | 99 | ||
| 44/03/29 | departed for Kure damaged by torpedo from Tunny - 18 casual. - returned to Palau (07-30N, 134-30E) | 99 | |||
| 44/03/29 | 44/04/03 | sail from Palau to Kure to avoid air raids anticipated (escorted by Misishio, Shiracuju, Fudzinami) | 99 | ||
| 44/04/03 | 44/05/10 | Kure - repairs 155mm turrets replaced by 6 twin 127 mm AA mounts | |||
| 44/05/11 | 44/05/16 | sail from Saeki to Okinawa (05/12) > Tawi Tawi | 99 | ||
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| 44/06/10 | 44/06/12 | KON3 | CovGrp | 3rd Biak Reinforcement attempt | 86 |
| 44/06/19 | 44/06/2? | A-Go | AdvFor/BatDiv1 | xPhilip | 86 |
| 44/07/08 | 44/07/10 | departed Kure for Okinawa with BatDiv1, CruDiv4, CruDiv7, DesRon2 | |||
| 44/10 | CenFor | xLeyte | |||
| 44/10/24 | CenFor | xSibuya: sunk(TF 38 - 20 torp/17 bombs) 20 nm N of Sibuyan Is. (12-50N, 122-35E) 1023 KIA/1376 surv. | 85 104 | ||