In this occasion she was strongly enhanced with anti-aircraft armament. In early 1944 she was damaged by an American submarine attack and was forced to return to Japan for repairs. In 1944 she was used to transfer forces and equipment between Japan and various occupied islands. During this year she sortied several times with the fleet searching for American forces, without success. In early 1943 the ship was transferred to Truk, that was the Empire of Japan's main base in the South Pacific. Musashi was commissioned on August 1942 and assigned to the 1st Battleship Division. She and her sister, Yamato, were the heaviest and most powerful battleships ever constructed, displacing 72800 tons at full load and armed with nine 46 cm Type 94 main guns.
Musashi battleship was the second ship of the Yamato class of Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. New England Historic Genealogical Society.
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