Yossarian
Forum Resistance Leader
I know that currently the location of the wreck of the Yamato's almost identical sister Musashi is not known, or at least found.
But considering the same state of her sister, sunk by similar means of intense air attack with both bombs machine gun strafing runs, and torpedos below the water line, after 17 confirmed bomb hits, and 19 confirmed torpedo hits, how do you folks here in the Milforum community here think she fared on her trip to the bottom?
The reason I ask is because I don't know or have credible information to know if the Musashi's ammuntion magazines exploded on her way down or not.
And since there is not even a sonar scan avaible of her resting on the bottom it is hard to know her true condition. But does anyone here think she is relativly intact? Or like her Ill Fated Sister, a product of the changing times, and the end of an era when the battlship ruled the seas?
Also have there been any privately funded expedition to find her, at the bottom of Leyte Gulf (it is where she sank I belive, or was at least attacked). Also lastly, does the U.S. Navy have any estimates on the location of where she went down , and maybe a clue on her final resting place, as well as the conditons of the ocean floor in that area.
Another question about the seabed in the Leyte Gulf Area, is it full of underwater mountain ranges? There fore extending the Musashi's violent end further as she may have slid in complete darkness down a mountain or volcano bank thousands of feet under water to her final resting place, just like the Bismark's final journey over 15,000 feet down? (A true testimate to the Bismark and Tirpitz's builders as she is amazingly intact after sliding 2/3 rds of a mile down a mountain side in complete darkness).
Some mysteries such as this really spark and ingnite the imagination. I hope one day, she is found, not disturbed but found and investigated like many other famous fighting ships of the World War's such as the HMS Hood and her ill fated Nemisis the Bismarck.
Question is, is she now a debris field like her sister? Or sitting maybe upright like other casualites of war and mostly intact, Like the U.S.S. Yorktown or HMHS Britannic now resting on her starboard side?
For seeing the final chapter of the Musashi's story frozen in time on the ocean bottom would be a sight to behold.
But considering the same state of her sister, sunk by similar means of intense air attack with both bombs machine gun strafing runs, and torpedos below the water line, after 17 confirmed bomb hits, and 19 confirmed torpedo hits, how do you folks here in the Milforum community here think she fared on her trip to the bottom?
The reason I ask is because I don't know or have credible information to know if the Musashi's ammuntion magazines exploded on her way down or not.
And since there is not even a sonar scan avaible of her resting on the bottom it is hard to know her true condition. But does anyone here think she is relativly intact? Or like her Ill Fated Sister, a product of the changing times, and the end of an era when the battlship ruled the seas?
Also have there been any privately funded expedition to find her, at the bottom of Leyte Gulf (it is where she sank I belive, or was at least attacked). Also lastly, does the U.S. Navy have any estimates on the location of where she went down , and maybe a clue on her final resting place, as well as the conditons of the ocean floor in that area.
Another question about the seabed in the Leyte Gulf Area, is it full of underwater mountain ranges? There fore extending the Musashi's violent end further as she may have slid in complete darkness down a mountain or volcano bank thousands of feet under water to her final resting place, just like the Bismark's final journey over 15,000 feet down? (A true testimate to the Bismark and Tirpitz's builders as she is amazingly intact after sliding 2/3 rds of a mile down a mountain side in complete darkness).
Some mysteries such as this really spark and ingnite the imagination. I hope one day, she is found, not disturbed but found and investigated like many other famous fighting ships of the World War's such as the HMS Hood and her ill fated Nemisis the Bismarck.
Question is, is she now a debris field like her sister? Or sitting maybe upright like other casualites of war and mostly intact, Like the U.S.S. Yorktown or HMHS Britannic now resting on her starboard side?
For seeing the final chapter of the Musashi's story frozen in time on the ocean bottom would be a sight to behold.
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