article_snippet: Launched in 1940, it was, at the time, the largest class of warship ever constructed, displacing more than 69,000 tons.
article_snippet: Japan's Musashi Japan's Musashi sank on October 24, 1944, during the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, part of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, in the central Philippines.
article_snippet: According to U.S. Navy documents, torpedo planes from U.S. aircraft carriers scored at least 10 hits on the battleship over the course of four hours.
article_snippet: U.S. Navy dive bombers also hit this key vessel 16 times, but it was the torpedo hits that doomed Japan's Musashi.
article_snippet: More than 1,000 of Japan's Musashi's crew were killed during the battle and sinking.