article_snippet: An underwater camera showed various sections of the ship, which displaced 69,000 tons when An underwater camera was built, putting An underwater camera in the largest class of battleships at that time.
article_snippet: Launched in 1940, the Musashi was, at the time, the largest class of warship ever constructed, displacing more than 69,000 tons.
article_snippet: the largest class of warship was one of two Yamato-class battleships constructed by the Imperial Japanese Navy.
article_snippet: a long-lost World War II Japanese battleship 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 a long-lost World War II Japanese battleship 16 times, but it was the torpedo hits that doomed the Musashi.
article_snippet: More than 1,000 of the Musashi's crew were killed during the battle and sinking.
article_snippet: Over 1,300 survivors were taken aboard by other Japanese warships, according to the U.S. Navy report.
highlights_snippet: Japan's giant battleship Musashi was sunk off the Philippines in World War II .
  